Dianne Penn

10 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2026 by Dianne Penn · across every show →

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Jul 26, 2026 positive
Disclosure
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…”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 59:06 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
Jul 26, 2026
Disclosure
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…”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 1:05:09 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
Jul 26, 2026 positive
Insight
Penn: AI PMs Must Sweat Tokens as Much as Pixels
“Here, you have to sweat the tokens as much as you sweat the pixels. And so one activity we have on the team is reading the transcripts. And understanding, ah, what was the trajectories that failed?”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 42:52 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
Jul 26, 2026
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Penn: 80% of early Claude instruction failures were invalid JSON outputs
“And what I saw was something like 80% of what people meant in the early days for this failure was Claude would not write the right JSON.”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 45:25 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
Jul 26, 2026 positive
Opinion
Penn: Highly capable AI models increase the need for user-centric PMs
“I think fundamentally, you didn't ask me this, but there is this question in the community of, do we still need PMs when the models are still capable, when engineers are leaning in I think the role of people who are user centric, who go into the details of und…”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 1:22:59 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
Jul 26, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Penn: AI in biology and life sciences is only at foot of exponential
“I think, you know, software engineering has been really transformed by AI. I think there's areas like biology, life sciences. These are all things that we're just kind of at like the foot of the exponential on. Like, maybe software engineering were on the expo…”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 1:13:30 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
Jul 26, 2026 neutral
Insight
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…”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 1:12:20 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
Jul 26, 2026 neutral
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Penn: Anthropic had five product engineers and one API engineer in 2023
“So I joined in 20, 23. Like you said, we had five product engineers. There was one engineer for the entirety of our API business, if you believe.”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 3:53 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
Jul 26, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Penn: Anthropic Kept Research PM Hiring Process Unchanged for Three Years
“We actually on my team have not changed our hiring loop for three years now. So what we actually look for and the traits and how we evaluate generalists like PNs, generalists like research product managers have actually been the same.”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 40:04 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
Jul 26, 2026 positive
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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…”
Dianne Penn Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 1:31:54 Why AI is going vertical (again) | Dianne Penn (Anthropic)
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