i'll never forget that time someone demo’ed me a language model at a hackathon in 2022 and I thought to myself "this is just GPT-3 but worse"
and it turned out to be Claude 1
In 2022 at a hackathon, @sharifshameem was shown a demo of a language model and…
Brief
Sharif Shameem recounts a 2022 hackathon memory where a demo of a language model led him to think “this is just GPT-3 but worse.” He later learned the system was Claude 1, and he shared the anecdote on X in 2026 to highlight his initial impression of that early Anthropic model.
Why it matters
In 2022 at a hackathon, @sharifshameem was shown a demo of a language model and judged it to be worse than GPT-3.
Key details
- The model demonstrated to him was Anthropic's Claude 1, a detail he recalls while posting about the memory in 2026.