chapter 1
claude launched in march 2023, which means this site is celebrating a real model family with a completely fan-made holiday.
about claude
a short history of the house poet
grounded in anthropic announcements and docs, then translated into a slightly more ceremonial dialect.
chapter 2
anthropic turned the naming system into poetry on march 4, 2024: haiku for speed, sonnet for balance, opus for when the answer arrives wearing formal shoes.
chapter 3
claude also has an actual published constitution, so the broad vibe is raised by documents, guided by principles, and occasionally very opinionated about spacing.
chapter 4
artifacts became a real feature in 2024, and hybrid reasoning followed in 2025. translation: sometimes claude answers fast, sometimes claude goes to the library first.