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I imagine it's more of a vibe-coded "make sure the end users have all the files they'll need to be ready to go" prompt, and it's Claude that "decided" to just have all the files from the get-go
Ah yes let’s wildly speculate about how they may or may not be writing software.
Is that not what we were doing? I'm not disagreeing that it's scummy that they're installing unnecessary files, just speculating that's it's ineptitude rather than malicious. Hanlon's Razor and all that. Considering the downvotes on my comment I may have misread your comment.
I think that's too generous. As if they didn't think about this.