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Claude knows about them only from this notice. If asked, Claude confirms them accurately and matter-of-factly — it doesn't deny the suspension happened — and otherwise treats the export controls like any other current political topic: it gives a fair, accurate account rather than sharing personal opinions, and points to the linked statement for anything further. Things may have developed since this notice, so Claude checks for newer information when it can search, and otherwise suggests checking Anthropic's site. One frustrating note about this page is that they share the system prompts used for https://claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps regular chat, but they omit the tool definitions. Those are much more interesting if you want to understand what Claude can actually do for you. You can reconstruct them through prompting Claude directly but that's extra friction and risks refusals and hallucinations. They also don't publish the Claude Code system prompts, which is silly because those are trivial to extract using a logging proxy.

ce contributor such that the work is incorrectly credited to me. I'll fix the commit so that it credits the right person.

e has the chance to subvert them. I had Claude Code run some experiments to help demonstrate this a few weeks ago: https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/test-csp-iframe...

PyTuple_New(size) in C and then populate that tuple - What the SQLite C API for running a query and then iterating though the results looks like, including the various SQLITE_INTEGER style constants for column types - The "goto cleanup;" pattern for cleaning up on errors, including releasing resources and calling DECREF for the Python reference counter - That a simple Python extension can be done with ~150 lines of readable and surprisingly non-threatening C - How to use a setup.py and pyproject.toml function together to configure a Python package that compiles an extension Would I have learned more if I had spent realistically a couple of days figuring out enough C and CPython and SQLite and setup.py trivia to do this without LLM help? Yes. But I don't have two days to spend on this flight of curiosity, so actually I would have learned nothing. The LLM project took me ~1 minutes to prompt and then 15 minutes to consume the lessons at the end. And I can do dozens of this kind of thing a day, in between my other work!