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zeroq
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Don't forget that Claude just got 3x faster by... using gzip!
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reacharavindh
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What is this story? Do you have any references on what happened? What did Claude code start to use gzip for?
solyin
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https://x.com/claudedevs/status/2111209208012210409
Supposedly they started gzipping the conversations.
stingraycharles
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I'm amazed that they're not ashamed that they weren't compressing their requests all this time.
charamis
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Their Claude models had not suggested that, so far
fingerlocks
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Aren’t the packets already compressed?
stingraycharles
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I can only assume the whole announcement is about enabling http compression.
fingerlocks
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This is not my wheelhouse so i could be mistaken, but i thought all the traffic was compressed at a lower layer and has been since the 90s
koolba
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At least they weren’t using brotli.
ethanj8011
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Wait till they find out about zstd...
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