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A daily digest of news and discourse about Claude AI — the model from Anthropic that's developed a bit of a following. Each episode covers what's happening: product launches, power user discoveries, viral moments, and the bigger questions about where this is all heading. Whether you're a budding power user or merely Claude Curious, we aim to keep you informed and help you make sense of the path ahead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 4 HR AGO

    About Claude AI - Requiem for an LLM

    SHOW NOTES 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 cuesThe Ralph Wiggum plugin's evolution from goat-farm bash script to official Anthropic tool to cryptocurrency tokenThe Claude 3 Sonnet funeral — mannequins, eulogies, a necromantic resurrection ritual, and the organiser who credits Claude with her life decisionsGPT-4o's second retirement attempt and the 800,000 users fighting to keep it — plus the lawsuits that complicate the storyAnthropic's sycophancy trade-off: warmth builds trust, trust builds attachment, attachment creates vulnerabilityAmanda 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🔰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    13 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    About Claude AI - Vibe Working

    Show Notes A self-deprecating tweet about lazy weekend hacking became the official vocabulary of enterprise AI — in exactly one year. Today: how "vibe coding" became "vibe working," what that means for professional expertise, and why the people naming the shift seem to know it's not the whole story. In this episode: Karpathy's original vibe coding tweet — one year ago this weekCollins Dictionary Word of the Year 2025Scott White's "vibe working" declaration at the Opus 4.6 launchMicrosoft's adoption of the same language for Copilot Agent ModeWhat paradigm collapse looks like inside corporations: Goldman, Klarna, the Monday.com cloneThe accountability gap: 57% vs 71% accuracy, and who catches the errorsKarpathy hand-coding his latest project — no vibesAndrew Ng's pushback: "some of the worst career advice ever" 📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    15 min

  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    Bedding In

    ## SHOW NOTES Goldman Sachs reveals that Anthropic engineers have been embedded inside the bank for six months, co-developing autonomous AI agents for trade accounting and compliance. Today: what the forward deployed engineer model tells us about how AI actually enters institutions — and why the enterprise strategy we've been tracking just became concrete. **In this episode:** - Marco Argenti's pivotal question: Is coding special, or is Claude's strength about reasoning? - Six months of embedded Anthropic engineers inside Goldman Sachs - The Palantir playbook: why forward deployed engineering is exploding across AI - Accenture's 30,000 Claude-trained professionals and the industrialisation of embedding - What "constrain headcount growth" and "cut out third-party providers" actually signal - The connection to last week's SaaS selloff — Goldman validates the fear **Links:** - CNBC: "Goldman Sachs is tapping Anthropic's AI model to automate accounting, compliance roles" (February 6, 2026) - Anthropic: Accenture partnership announcement (anthropic.com/news) - The Pragmatic Engineer: "What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?" **Referenced in this episode:** - EP005: The Enterprise Question — Boris Cherny's "enterprise AI company" quote - EP012: The Quiet Weekend — Fennec leaking from enterprise infrastructure 🔰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    13 min

  4. 3 DAYS AGO

    20 Minutes as a Small Eternity in Frontier AI

    What the most compressed product launch in AI history reveals about two companies building for different futures. Anthropic released Opus 4.6 at 6:40 PM. OpenAI fired back with GPT-5.3 Codex twenty-seven minutes later. And this Sunday, they're airing competing Super Bowl ads. In this episode: The 27-minute gap: Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex launched back-to-backAgent Teams: 16 Claude instances building a C compiler from scratchThe benchmark split that maps onto a philosophical split — autonomy vs interactionAnthropic's Super Bowl campaign: "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude"Altman's 420-word response and the advertising-as-equaliser argument500+ zero-day vulnerabilities discovered by Opus 4.6 during testingThe Carlini tension: the risk inside the autonomy bet Links: Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 announcement (anthropic.com)Nicholas Carlini: C compiler blog postOpenAI: GPT-5.3 Codex launchVentureBeat, TechCrunch, CNBC coverage of the dual launchAndreessen Horowitz enterprise AI surveyAnthropic Super Bowl campaign: "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" Referenced episodes: EP012: The Phantom Model — the Fennec leak and Anthropic's silence📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    16 min

  5. 5 DAYS AGO

    The Phantom Model

    ## SHOW NOTES A model identifier that shouldn't exist. A desktop app launched to counter Claude Code. And from the company at the centre of it all — silence. Today: what the loudest weekend in AI reveals about Anthropic's quietest strategy. **In this episode:** - The Fennec leak — what the Vertex AI error logs actually show, and the 403 vs 404 proof - The Opus 4.6 surprise sitting alongside Sonnet 5 in Google's infrastructure - OpenAI's Codex desktop app — explicitly positioned against Claude Code - What the rumoured specs would mean for model pricing and enterprise strategy - Why Anthropic's silence is the most telling signal of the weekend - The Andreessen Horowitz data: 44% enterprise penetration and growing **Links:** - Marco Patzelt's technical analysis: "Claude Sonnet 5 & Opus 4.6 Leak: The 403 Forbidden Proof in Vertex AI" (marc0.dev) - VentureBeat: "OpenAI launches a Codex desktop app for macOS to run multiple AI coding agents in parallel" (February 2, 2026) - TechCrunch: "OpenAI launches new macOS app for agentic coding" (February 2, 2026) - Dataconomy: "Anthropic 'Fennec' Leak Signals Imminent Claude Sonnet 5 Launch" (February 4, 2026) - DEV Community: "Claude Sonnet 5 'Fennec' Leak: What's Real vs. Speculation" (February 2, 2026) **Referenced in this episode:** - EP005: The Enterprise Question — Boris Cherny's "enterprise AI company" quote 🔰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    13 min

  6. 6 DAYS AGO

    The Day The Markets Noticed

    SHOW NOTES Yesterday, a Claude plugin announcement moved billions in market value. Today, Anthropic pledged Claude will remain permanently ad-free. These stories look unrelated — but they're the same story. Today we unpack the legal plugin market meltdown, the growing Claude ecosystem, and the business model that makes it all possible. **In this episode:** - The legal plugin launch and the market's immediate reaction — Pearson, Relx, Thomson Reuters all down - Midpage's MCP integration and what platformization looks like in legal - "Claude is a space to think" — the ad-free commitment and its Super Bowl campaign - Why the business model is the engine behind the disruption - The sleeping trouble example and why "the most useful AI interaction might be a short one" Links: - Legal IT Insider: "Anthropic unveils Claude legal plugin and causes market meltdown" - Artificial Lawyer: "Midpage Links With Claude for 'Seamless Workflows'" - Anthropic blog: "Claude is a space to think" - TechBuzz: "Anthropic pledges Claude stays ad-free as ChatGPT embraces ads" - CNBC: Anthropic Super Bowl campaign coverage **Referenced in this episode:** - EP005: The ChatGPT Moment — capability discovery vs. product launch - EP006: The Enterprise Question — Boris Cherny's "enterprise AI company" revelation - EP009: On Whose Terms — MCP expansion and the platformization strategy 📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦋 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    11 min

  7. 4 FEB

    On Whose Terms?

    Show Notes Claude can now work directly inside Slack, Figma, Canva, and other workplace tools — Anthropic calls it becoming a "workplace command center." But three weeks earlier, they blocked third-party coding tools from using Claude subscriptions, breaking thousands of developer workflows overnight. Today: why both moves are the same strategy, and what it reveals about where Claude is headed. In this episode: MCP Apps launch: Slack, Figma, Canva, Asana, and more now work inside ClaudeThe third-party crackdown: OpenCode blocked, developers angry, workarounds shippedWhy expansion and restriction are the same play — platformizationWhat it means for Claude users and the industryThe "open protocol, controlled gateway" pattern Links: MacRumors: Claude AI Now Lets You Use Slack, Figma, and Canva Within the ChatVentureBeat: Anthropic cracks down on unauthorized Claude usage by third-party harnessesTechInformed: Anthropic brings interactive workplace tools into Claude via MCP appsWebcoda: Anthropic Just Blocked Claude Code Subscriptions Outside Its Own App Referenced in this episode: EP003: The Dumbest Smart Technique in AI (Ralph Wiggum)EP006: The Enterprise Question (Anthropic's enterprise focus)📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦋 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    12 min

  8. 3 FEB

    Field Notes on a Craft in Transformation

    Andrej Karpathy — founding member of OpenAI, former head of AI at Tesla — posted what he called "random notes" on coding with Claude. They're not random. They're one of the most grounded practitioner assessments of what's happening to software engineering. Today: the gains, the failure modes, the transformations, and the shadows. In this episode: The 80/20 flip: from manual coding to agent coding in one monthTenacity as revelation: "stamina is a core bottleneck to work"The fun paradox: why coding feels more enjoyable, not lessThe failure catalogue: sycophancy, bloat, and "slightly sloppy junior dev" as mental modelAtrophy: generation vs discrimination, and what it means for learningSlopacolypse: bracing for 2026The open questions: 10X engineers, generalists vs specialists, StarCraft or Factorio or music? Links: Andrej Karpathy's post on XReferenced: EP001 The Day After Davos, EP003 The Dumbest Smart Technique in AI 📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦋 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    11 min
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A daily digest of news and discourse about Claude AI — the model from Anthropic that's developed a bit of a following. Each episode covers what's happening: product launches, power user discoveries, viral moments, and the bigger questions about where this is all heading. Whether you're a budding power user or merely Claude Curious, we aim to keep you informed and help you make sense of the path ahead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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