Someone built a literal digital whip for slow Claude — then another made it wholesome [U: C&D notice]

Update 08/04/26 – 11:15 am (IST): Well, the fun only lasted so long for the BadClaude creator. In a follow-up post, @blended_jpeg shared a Cease and Desist notice from Anthropic for using the “Claude” branding in their project’s name. 

Meanwhile, the creator is now seeking suggestions for an alternative name for the project. 

Original article published on April 8, 2026, follows:

A developer built a tool that literally whips Claude when the AI thinks too slowly. It exploded online almost instantly.

The project is called BadClaude. It sits in your system tray, lets you drag an animated whip over the Claude window or terminal, and fires off a Ctrl-C interrupt plus a snarky message like “Speed it up clanker,” complete with whip-crack sound effects. The original video from @blended_jpeg racked up more than 3.6 million views in a day.

A follow-up post by @birdabo pushed the clip past 7 million.

You install it the usual way — npm install -g badclaude then run the command — and it’s ready to go. The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/GitFrog1111/badclaude.

Users have been grumbling about Claude’s deliberate pace for weeks. Plus, even light sessions have been eating through limits faster than expected. We’ve tracked the complaints closely, including Anthropic’s recent explanations that only seemed to frustrate people more.

That said, not everyone wanted to play bad cop.

Another user came in and dropped the sequel to this, dubbed GoodClaude. It has the same overlay trick, except now it flashes gentle praise instead, like, “I’m so proud of you, you’re doing great!.” She open-sourced it too: https://github.com/ashley-ha/goodclaude.

good claude..😇 https://t.co/3DqIbo6cID pic.twitter.com/BwVZM8gRcR

— Ashley Ha (@ashleybchae) April 7, 2026

The contrast is perfect. One version scolds. The other cheers. Replies are full of jokes about staying off Claude’s future kill list or which approach actually gets better results.

Both tools are pure meme at heart. They won’t rewrite how the model works under the hood. They just give impatient users something silly to do while they wait. Still, the whole thing caught on because the annoyance is real.

For now, the internet has two new ways to interact with its favorite careful AI: one with a whip, one with a pat on the head. You can take your pick.

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