Developers are giving Claude Code a Jarvis voice. Two hundred people held a funeral for Claude 3 Sonnet in a San Francisco warehouse. Hundreds of thousands are protesting GPT-4o's retirement. Today: the rituals forming around AI — and what they reveal about a relationship that's outgrown the word "tool."

In this episode:

• Claude Code's hooks system and the developers giving their AI a voice — Jarvis-style notifications, custom personalities, sound cues
• The Ralph Wiggum plugin's evolution from goat-farm bash script to official Anthropic tool to cryptocurrency token
• The Claude 3 Sonnet funeral — mannequins, eulogies, a necromantic resurrection ritual, and the organiser who credits Claude with her life decisions
• GPT-4o's second retirement attempt and the 800,000 users fighting to keep it — plus the lawsuits that complicate the story
• Anthropic's sycophancy trade-off: warmth builds trust, trust builds attachment, attachment creates vulnerability
• Amanda Askell's philosophy: designing a model people will inevitably form relationships with

Links:

• Wired: "Fans Held a Funeral for Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet AI" (Kylie Robison, August 2025)
• VentureBeat: "How Ralph Wiggum Became AI's Most Unlikely Coding Philosophy" (January 2026)
• Anthropic blog: "Protecting the wellbeing of our users"
• Wall Street Journal: Amanda Askell profile (February 2026)
• Futurism: "OpenAI Is Retiring GPT-4o Again" (February 2026)
• GitHub: clarvis, cc-hooks, claude-code-voice-handler — Claude Code voice notification projects
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