I Think They Are Lying To You
Credibility score: 50/100 — Mixed Credibility. Several questionable claims detected. Watch with healthy skepticism.
BSmeter analyzed "I Think They Are Lying To You" and rated it 50/100 for credibility (a BS score of 50/100 — mixed credibility), on 2026-06-12. Its weakest claim — "Two years of code shipped every quarter per employee" — scored 25/100 and was flagged as sketchy. 20 claims were checked against the video transcript. Scores are produced by BSmeter's AI analysis of the transcript, not independent human verification.
Claims analyzed
Says coding is fully solved and now the easy part — Opinion (30/100)
Top comment already called it: they’re still hiring engineers to clean up the slop.
Shipping 8x more code per employee in Q2 2026 vs pre-2025 — Unverifiable (50/100)
8x per employee with zero data, metrics, or company named — pure number, no receipt.
Two years of code shipped every quarter per employee — Sketchy (25/100)
8x quarterly output equals 32x yearly — math only works if pre-2025 baseline was near zero.
Coding is solved — humans only prompt and review AI output — Opinion (50/100)
Bold take, but top comments already roasting the 'hiring engineers to fix slop' reality.
Linear.app is exceptionally fast and smooth — Sponsored (50/100)
Linear.app sponsor read — full demo and 'you should try it' pitch at 3:27.
AI hype is lying to and hurting developers — Opinion (50/100)
Personal take on industry messaging — frames it as actively harmful to devs' mental health.
Claude Code released February 2025 for researchers — Unverifiable (50/100)
No public record of that exact February 2025 researcher release — could be right, just nothing confirming it.
Speaker personally saw flickering bug in 2024, thinks Anthropic knew — Personal Story (60/100)
Personal experience claim — can't fact-check someone's own screen time, but the 2024 pre-release guess stays speculative.
Anthropic publicly claimed 85% flicker reduction on Dec 17, 2025 — Unverifiable (50/100)
No search results confirm that December 17, 2025 statement or the 85% figure — could exist internally.
Anthropic claims 85% flicker reduction fix — Dubious (45/100)
85% reduction on a pure software bug after nine months — why not 100%? That number feels like a press release, not engineering.
Speaker claims 85% bug fixes are unprecedented — Opinion (50/100)
Hyperbole — plenty of stochastic fixes exist in complex systems. The real point is the timeline, not the percentage.
Anthropic implied coding is largely solved, then rolled back changes — OK (60/100)
The December 18th rollback directly undercuts any "largely solved" messaging. Timing is the receipt.
Terminal flickering bug lasted over a year from first GitHub report — Solid (75/100)
March 2026 minus first report = 12+ months on a grid layout bug. That's the core receipts.
If AI coding was solved, Anthropic wouldn't need feature branches for flickering — Opinion (50/100)
They're equating one UI bug with 'coding isn't solved' — that's a leap.
Anthropic and Boris are lying about coding being solved — Opinion (50/100)
Calling them liars over one open bug is strong — even if the hype is real.
Claude Dev's May 27th post admits the product still has mysterious error messages — OK (60/100)
The transcript shows them pointing at the post — but we can't see the actual tweet here.
Claims coding is solved and the easy part — Opinion (50/100)
Boris says coding's solved while Anthropic still can't fix basic errors — rich.
Says Claude shows 98% uptime but still has elevated errors — Unverifiable (50/100)
No public uptime number cited — just vibes about '98 some percent.'
Users report seeing other people's outputs in Claude for a year — Personal Story (50/100)
Community reports exist on GitHub/Reddit — speaker isn't making this up.
AI salesmen pushing $10k/day spend while giving free tokens and making false claims — Opinion (50/100)
Calling out the exact contradiction: free unlimited tokens while charging ten grand a day.
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