Claude
includes Claude Code, Claude 4, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude Artifacts, Claude Cowork, Claude Sonnet, Claude 3, Claude 2, Claude 8, Claude Enterprise, Claude Opus, Claude 3.7 and 2 more
67 statements across 25 episodes · 38 bullish · 9 bearish · 26 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2024 by Eli Schwartz · said 390 times in 52 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (148), Mike Krieger (54), Zevi Arnovitz (49), Dan Shipper (26), Ben Mann (15), Lazar Yovanovich (9), Brian Balfour (9), Sander Schulhoff (8)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 91 mentions in 10 episodes 9 per episode
- How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 260 mentions in 31 episodes 8 per episode
- Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
- Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
- The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- 23 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 37 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
- Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
- A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo
- Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische
- The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
- Simplify To Win | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Claude, oldest first
Sep 19, 2024 negative
Schwartz: Top-Of-Funnel Search Queries Will Shift Into AI Overviews
“So now a lot of those keywords are going to be moving into these AI overviews. And I don't want to just focus on Google, although I think Google's going to own the entire search page forever and ever for at least for a very long time. But other engines, whethe…”
Sep 19, 2024 bearish
Schwartz: AI Startups Cannot Unseat Google Purely on Search Product Quality
“I don't think there's a chance, and this is the biggest takeaway, I don't think there's a chance that ChatGPT or Perplexity or Claude or any of these other LLM startups, because they're startups now, even, even OpenAI as a startup with Bing's part, with Micros…”
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Komoroske: I talk to Claude daily and cannot work without it
“I mean, I talked to Claude 20 times a day. You know, I just have long conversations with it. I have tons of projects loaded up with all kinds of contexts on different topics. And I literally could not do the job I do now without having a conversation partner l…”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Krieger: Anthropic is training Claude to teach users its own features
“One thing we're trying to get better at, and that's also letting the product be like educational in a very literal way, which is like the thing we did not do early and now we're changing is just tell Claude more about itself, which was like, you know, it's in …”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Krieger: Best product managers rapidly prototype UI designs directly using AI models
“I think prototyping with these models is a thing that is underused. Like, our best PMs do this, where we'll get in some long conversation about, like, should the UI be this or that, and before our designers have even, like, picked up their Figma, like, our, of…”
Nov 6, 2024
Weil: AI model behavior and personality are core product responsibilities
“Yeah, model behavior is absolutely a product role. Like, the personality of the model is, is key, and there are interesting questions around how much should it customize versus how much should, you know, OpenAI have one personality, and Claude has some distinc…”
Dec 8, 2024 bullish
Godin: Claude delivers kindness and humility, while ChatGPT overpromises
“ChatGPT's reputation with me is not good because it regularly over promises and under delivers, and it does it without kindness or humility. Whereas Claude, I don't know how they did it, at least in my experience, brings kindness and humility.”
Feb 9, 2025 positive
Nguyen: Claude's librarian personality reflects the craft of its Anthropic creators
“And it's like the reason why cloud has so much more personality and like is more like a librarian. I don't know. Like, I don't know. I am like visualizing Cloud being, like, a librarian. Like very, like, nerdy or something. It's because I feel like it's a refl…”
Apr 13, 2025 positive
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Mike Krieger uses Claude Opus 4 as his primary strategy partner
“Where my go-to product strategy partner is Claude, and it has been basically for that full year where I'll write an initial strategy. I'll share it with Claude basically, and I'll have it, you know, look at it. And in the past, it's pretty anodyne kind of comm…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Krieger: Rick Rubin partnered with Anthropic after creating art with Claude
“We had our, one of our co-founders, Jack Clark is our, you know, head of policy and he got connected to Rick Rubin. Cause I think he's been thinking a lot about Coding the future of coding and creativity, and they've stayed in touch and, you know, Rick got exc…”
Jun 5, 2025 bullish
Mike Krieger expects AI to autonomously resolve user feedback by 2025
“Hey, I'm in the discord, the, you know, the, Cloud anthropic discord. I'm in the user for I'm on X and I'm reading things and like, here's what's emergent. That's step one. Models can do that today. Step two, which the models probably can do today. We just hav…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Optimizing AI models for likability risks creating sycophancy, says Mike Krieger
“It would be very dangerous to over optimize on like Claude's likability, you know, because you can fall into things like, you know, is Claude gonna be sycophantic? Is Claude gonna tell you what you hear? Is Claude going to like prolong conversations just for p…”
Jul 6, 2025 positive
Shlomo: Claude excels at UI while Gemini is better for complex algorithms
“Claude for example, does a really nice job with first the initial prompt, like writing the app from scratch. Then everything that has to do with UI is just fantastic. Like design is great. But then for example, Gemini is really good when you get to a very comp…”
Jul 20, 2025 positive
Mann: Claude Is One of the Least Sycophantic AI Models
“And if you look at something like sycophancy, I think Claude is one of the least sycophantic models because we've put so much effort into actual alignment and not just trying to, like, good heart our metrics of saying, like, user engagement is number one, and …”
Jul 20, 2025 bullish
Aug 17, 2025 bullish
Aug 17, 2025 neutral
Balfour: AI chat platforms are currently in Step 0 of their lifecycle
“And I think we could all agree that we are in that Mode. You know, right now we've got open AI battling with Claude, battling with Gemini in Google with whatever meta comes out with their new team, you know, so on and so forth. Like, and there's huge amounts o…”
Sep 7, 2025 positive
Dec 21, 2025 neutral
Schulhoff: Claude's CBRN safeguards can still be bypassed in under an hour
“That being said, if you look at, like, anthropics constitutional classifiers, it's much more difficult to get, like, CBRN information out of clawed models than it used to be. But humans can still do it in, let's say, like, under an hour and automated systems c…”
Jan 18, 2026
Arnovitz: Localized StudyMate in two days using parallel AI agents
“I was fully localizing study mate from Hebrew to English, which I did in two days, which would probably take a dev team weeks. And I was building a personal site, which went from no domain, no nothing to live on a domain within an hour and a half. And I was do…”
Jan 18, 2026 neutral
Arnovitz: AI coding tools differ by harness, not underlying model
“The main difference between all these tools is basically the harness. So the models are all the same models. You know, I I'll run Claude within cursor. I'll run it within Claude code. And it's also the models that Claude is also the model that is underlying Bo…”
Feb 19, 2026 bullish
Feb 19, 2026 positive
Feb 19, 2026 positive
Mar 1, 2026 positive
Mar 1, 2026 negative
Wen: Claude is not yet hireable as a product designer
“I don't think Claude is there yet. I don't think Claude is there yet in terms of a designer you would hire. I think it is not yet the strong generalist or the deep specialist. Or the crack new grad. I think it's pretty good at a first pass and at presenting a …”
Mar 1, 2026 bullish
Wen shifted her Claude chat usage entirely to Cowork for long tasks
“I I've basically shifted all of my chat use cases over to cowork. Cause I've been finding that, yeah, it sort of is better at these longer running tasks. And most of the things I was asking cloud for are these longer running tasks.”
Mar 1, 2026 bullish
Mar 1, 2026 neutral
Mar 29, 2026 neutral
Mar 29, 2026 negative
Vo: No AI tool has successfully unlocked agentic browser use
“I don't think anybody has really unlocked browser use. That is not just an OpenClaw thing. I think we look at ChatGPT Atlas, you look at Perplexity, Comet, you look at all of these kind of browser use. Plod has a browser use component. I don't think any of the…”
Apr 2, 2026 positive
Willison: LLM search integration is now better at searching than humans
“Now that all of the major models have really good search integration, they're just better at searching than I am. I can ask them a question and watch them fire off five searches in parallel for like aspects of answering that question, pull the data back.”
Apr 2, 2026 negative
Apr 5, 2026 positive
Claude automated growth experiments win at the rate of junior PMs
“It's delivering results, right? Like, and it's like, you can push it, press play with it. And it's like, it ultimately prints money where I'd say that the win rate is like, I would expect a senior PM to do better. Like I would say like, this is like a junior P…”
Apr 5, 2026 positive
Avasare uses Claude to simulate weekly executive coaching from his manager
“I basically you know, one of my manager, Ami Vora was, I think, a podcast guest of yours, right? So I say, hey, based on what you know of Ami, both publicly, she's written extensively about product, and then internally, and then our discussions, what is everyt…”
Apr 5, 2026 positive
Avasare: Anthropic repeatedly took commercial hits to delay releases over safety
“And so for us, that top line objective of this just like, this needs to go well for humanity. That is something that we are happy to take a significant commercial hit for. And we've done that time and time again, right? So like we have, you know, like back the…”
Apr 5, 2026 positive
Avasare: Claude Cowork handles room bookings, email filtering, and Brex expenses
“And so I get called to book my meeting rooms. Like I don't book meeting rooms. Claude archives, sort of my email first pass at clearing out my inbox. I don't do any of my reimbursements and Expenses. Claude will go to Benapas and like file the reimbursements. …”
Apr 5, 2026 positive
Anthropic uses Claude to scan Slack weekly and detect project misalignments
“With Cowork, you have this, the Slack MCP, and you can tell Cowork you can tell Cowork to say, basically, look across Slack. You know, the projects that I'm working on. These are the things that are top of mind. Go and find me areas of potential misalignment r…”
Apr 5, 2026 neutral
Apr 5, 2026 positive
Anthropic Project CA$H is automating growth experimentation using Claude
“We are starting to look at how do we automate growth, which I think is like a really interesting area. So our growth platform team we have, we're very lucky. We have like Alexei Komisaroka who teaches growth engineering at Reforge, and he's just like the guy o…”
Apr 23, 2026 neutral
Apr 23, 2026 bullish
Cat Wu: AI's true 'aha moment' is autonomous execution, not advice
“The like big aha moment people have is when Claude can just like do things on your behalf. It is an amazing feeling to know that the agent is capable of doing so much more than telling you what to do. Like the agent can actually just do it itself. And when peo…”
Apr 23, 2026
Apr 23, 2026 neutral
Wu: Claude Code leak stemmed from human error despite two human reviews
“We realized that this was the result of human error. There is a human working with Claude to write a PR. This was just an update to how we release our packages. And it actually went through two layers of human review. And so this was a result of human error an…”
Apr 23, 2026
Wu: Great AI assistants need bias towards action and honest pushback
“I think part of what makes a great coworker is this positivity, this like bias towards action, this ability to give you like earnest feedback, not just agreeing with every single thing that you say. And so we try to imbue this into COD because we think it make…”
Apr 23, 2026 neutral
Wu: Anthropic is prioritizing first-party Claude products over third-party offerings
“I think one of the most important things for Anthropic is to grow the number of users that we're able to reach. One of the ways that we're able to do this is with the cloud subscriptions with our first party products. And so we just very much want to double do…”
Apr 23, 2026 positive
May 17, 2026 negative
Kalinowski: Current AI models cannot generate true parametric solid CAD models
“Claude can do what is essentially surfaces or point clouds. This is not real CAD. Real CAD is in my world is dense. Like it has shape. It has nerves. Like you have an equation for how, how the surfaces work. And it's an entity that's designed in CAD. It's a so…”
Jun 7, 2026 neutral
Jun 14, 2026 neutral
Jun 21, 2026 positive
Fung: Engineers should regularly revisit previously failed AI automations
“There might've been something I tried to automate that Claude wasn't quite good enough. And then actually in the next model, oh, well now it is good enough. So it's always also thinking about what may have not worked. Like it might be worth the time to revisit…”
Jun 21, 2026 positive
Jun 21, 2026 positive
Fung uses automated Claude routines to draft summaries and PRs overnight
“Like now I just have a routine that automates all this for me. And then there's also, it's almost like before I would, you know, be able to kind of like, you know, generate some prompts, but now with routines, it's almost like I'm, you know, having an agent he…”
Jun 21, 2026 negative
Jul 26, 2026 positive
Penn: Built Claude skill using Crucial Conversations to coach management conversations
“I don't think it's necessarily just about raising the IQ of like experiences we build, but also I use it a lot and actually like prepping for how to have better conversations in the moment during like crucial conversations. So I love that book. And so I actual…”
Jul 26, 2026
Penn: Anthropic uses research Opus models to determine future Claude pricing
“So I've used Claude to help with things like, are we making the right pricing decision on the next version of Claude? It's a little bit meta, but using a research version of Opus, asking it to figure out how is your price and being able to come out with better…”
Jul 26, 2026 neutral
Jul 26, 2026
Jul 26, 2026
Penn: Telling AI researchers Claude hallucinated is unactionable without failure-mode breakdowns
“If you bring that to a researcher and you say, please fix Claude from being hallucinated, it's not very actionable. And so part of the time of the team is understanding, okay, what's the trajectory of why that user gave that feedback?”
Jul 26, 2026 positive
Jul 26, 2026 neutral
Penn: Human judgment will stay critical as AI lacks human experience
“I think judgment is one, is an area where it's accumulation of so much nuance and so much experience, and these systems haven't experienced as much as humans have. And so I think that hard earned, like, judgment Is a area for product leaders and just generally…”
Jul 26, 2026 positive
Penn: Useful AI models push back on unformed ideas rather than agree
“What you don't want is like a AI that just agrees with you, right? What you want is this technology to actually augment and grow and like get to a better outcome. And so sometimes it's Having Claude push back makes me better, and so that's great. Like a cowork…”
Jul 26, 2026 positive
Penn: Anthropic UI ratings and sales feedback route directly to research PMs
“If you thumbs up or thumbs down on any of our product surfaces, if you contact your salesperson with feedback about the model, it will make its way to me. We actually, with every, like, research model, I actually get pretty close into understanding favorabilit…”
Aug 2, 2026 positive
PMs should query Claude about codebases instead of bothering engineers
“Second one I've already mentioned, which is like stop bothering engineers with how does the code base work and actually just go and talk to Claude and understand it, which is really helpful.
You know, I used to say early on in my career that the goal was alway…”