RedditClaude Excel Plugin Transforms Financial Modeling 987 UpvotesReddit·high signalXBlueskyLinkedInCopy linkFinancial modeler reports Claude Excel plugin handles complex multi-sheet models with circular references. 987 upvotes, 166 comments. Strong adoption signal.SourceSource pageReddit↳ Follow the threadShared entity / Stack layerAnthropic's report says Moonshot relayed ~300,000 Kimi requests to Claude through 5,380 accounts, and a PRC state engineer's live credentials went with themAnthropic September 2026 threat report (via r/ClaudeAI and r/OpenAI)Shared entity / Stack layerPattern: Anthropic's own bar is that Claude-written production code gets reviewed harder than human-written codeSimon WillisonStack layer / ContrastA first-hand report on Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect exam says it is not a docs-skimr/ClaudeAI (exam details via anthropic.skilljar.com)Stack layer / ContrastA model-download mirror called Hugging Bay appeared the same week as the openness fightr/LocalLLaMAPolicy dependency / Stack layerA replay of 68,266 real Claude Code requests says plain LRU beats the clever KV-cache policiesGitHubStack layerA $3,010 build gets 128GB of VRAM and 256GB of RAM, at 700-900W under prefillr/LocalLLaMA (817 upvotes, 231 comments)Update threadClaude's iOS app quietly gained multi-account switchingr/ClaudeAI (70 upvotes)Update threadOpenAI partially acknowledged a GPT-6 Astra downgrade, and separately stopped letting people renew the $200 planr/OpenAI (corroborated by r/ChatGPT)