[dominicm]

I'm...rather confused why the results here are surprising. The title and first paragraph are suggestive of unusual data like analytics or sending all your codebase, but it's just sending the prompt + context.

This is how every LLM API has worked for years; the API is a stateless token machine, and the prompts + turns are managed by the client application. If anything it's interesting how standard it is; no inside baseball, they just use the normal public API.

[rastriga]

Fair point — the stateless prompt+context pattern itself is standard, and the headline probably leans too much into “surprise.” The takeaway for me was the opposite of hidden complexity: start simple, don’t over-engineer. Claude Code feels like a good example of a system that’s straightforward, reliable, and easy to reason about.