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Austin Lau, who works in marketing at Anthropic, may have just set a new standard for AI-powered wedding planning.<\/p>\n

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Ahead of marrying his longtime partner, Lau used Claude Code to analyze 12 years of iMessages between the couple, then fed the data into Claude Design to generate a custom wedding website packed with stats, charts, and inside jokes. He posted this on X, racking up more than 3 million views.<\/p>\n

The result looked like a Spotify Wrapped for their relationship: 161,000 messages, 8,600 shared photos, almost 28,000 emojis, and nearly 1,800 “I love you” texts. One chart mapped their texting habits over time, with a peak in 2016 when they were in college. Another chart revealed that messaging spiked around 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

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But the internet fixated on something else: the couple’s second most-used emoji over 12 years was the angry face. One X user wrote, “Best of luck mate.”<\/p>\n

Lau’s response: “I’m cooked brother.”<\/p>\n

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