About Claude

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...

Dario Amodei just published "The Adolescence of Technology" — a 38-page essay laying out five categories of AI risk, from rogue autonomy to economic disruption to authoritarianism. It's stirring, sobering, and raises a question he borrows from Contact: "How did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?" In this episode: The document: five risk categories and the "coun...

Demis Hassabis named something at Davos that's been nagging at us since: the "capability overhang." The gap between what current models can do and what users are actually extracting from them. Today we explore what that means — and why the interesting story right now might not be about what's coming, but what's already here and undertapped. In this episode: What Hassabis meant by "capability overh...

Cowork launched two weeks ago as "Claude Code for the rest of your work." Today we assess what the first fortnight reveals: proof points that work, honest critiques that cut deep, a cautionary tale about deleted files, and the design question at the heart of AI democratisation. In this episode: Why Cowork exists — developers were using Claude Code for everything except coding The proof points — Le...

When everyone's asking "Is this Anthropic's ChatGPT moment?", the head of Claude Code says the company is focused on something else entirely. Today: what Boris Cherny's Fortune interview reveals about Anthropic's actual strategy — and why the viral consumer moment might be a byproduct, not the goal. In this episode: Boris Cherny's "enterprise AI company" quote and what it means The pipeline: techn...

SHOW NOTES Is Claude Code Anthropic's "ChatGPT moment"? The question has been everywhere this month — Bloomberg, Fortune, Axios, developer Twitter. Today we unpack the discourse itself: what actually changed to make January 2026 different from February 2025, why the tool's name undersells its capabilities, and what the ChatGPT comparison reveals about how we understand technological change. **In t...

Description: There's a philosopher at Anthropic whose job is to decide what kind of entity Claude should be. Her name is Amanda Askell, and she describes her work like raising a genius child you can't afford to bullshit. This week, Anthropic published the document she's been crafting — 23,000 words explaining to Claude who it is, how it should behave, and why. Today: what's in it, what changed, an...

Dario Amodei wasn't done at Davos. Beyond the software engineering prediction, he called the Trump administration's decision to sell advanced chips to China "crazy" — comparing it to selling nuclear weapons to North Korea. But how much of the AI transformation is actually happening right now, in measurable terms? Today we ground the Davos rhetoric in Anthropic's own Economic Index data, released l...

Dario Amodei told a Davos audience that software engineering could be "almost entirely automatable" in six to twelve months. That's a remarkable claim from the CEO of Anthropic — the company behind Claude. Today we unpack what he actually said, check his track record on similar predictions, and ask what it means for people using Claude right now. Plus: Demis Hassabis offers a different perspective...

Episode 0 — the one where we explain ourselves. About Claude is a daily digest of news and discourse about Claude AI. In this introduction, we cover what the show is (news, discourse, bigger questions), what it isn't (breathless hype, productivity grind), and why it exists in the first place. Whether you're a budding power user or merely Claude Curious, this is where we're starting. — Follow the s...