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Tan: Anthropic's Claude Code team uses AI to write 95% of codebase
“The Claude Code team apparently writes, 95% of their code is written by Claude, which means very directly that each engineer working on Claude Code themselves is doing the work of 20 people.”
Garry Tan Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 19:11 #2281 Garry Tan: Y Combinator Startups Growing 5X Faster – Here’s What Changed
Insight
Cheney: Plan with Claude before coding in Replit to save expensive tokens
“A lot of people, they'll go directly to Replit and just say, I have an idea. I want to start building it. That's a great way to waste a lot of tokens that are more expensive, right? Go to chat GPT first, go to Claude, whatever you want, pick your LLM of choice…”
Jon Cheney Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 5:39 #2304 “I make $4.5 million implementing AI”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Matze: No Off-The-Shelf LLM Is Designed For Sales Conversations
“The main thing is there's no LLM, there's no chat GPT, there's no cloud that is specifically meant to respond for sales or human-like conversations.”
Evgeny Matze Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 15:49 #2292 AI Automation that makes cold calls
Insight
Foster: Top automators route queries across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
“What I see the best automators do is they know ChatGPT is really good at this type of queries. Claude is really good at these types of queries. Gemini's really good at this type of stuff, and so they're using Zapier to say, hey, go route this request here, and…”
Wade Foster Dec 19, 2025 ▶ 41:20 #2289 Building companies using Zapier’s AI automations
Disclosure
Tossell: I now use CLI tools instead of ChatGPT web apps
“And actually I now use the CLI tool over using ChatWT or Claude on the web for almost anything.”
Ben Tossell Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 32:48 #2287 AI made a “no code” founder into a coder
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shipper: Claude is near capable of dynamic agentic copy editing via Notion
“Claude is very, very good right now at, you know, longer horizon agentic tasks. And so I would, And it now also has file use. So I would bet that we're getting close to, if not currently at a place where if you pointed it at a notion page and said, read the no…”
Dan Shipper Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 34:08 #2283 How Dan Shipper uses AI to build artisanal AI apps
Disclosure
Mohrer gets ~$3K in Claude usage for $200 monthly subscription
“So I spend 200 bucks and I think I get something like 3000 dollars worth of API usage from it versus going direct and using the API. I was spending 50 to a hundred dollars a day, which I'm happy to do because I'm getting serious value out of it, but I'd rather…”
Josh Mohrer Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 20:53 #2296 The $7 Million Vibe Coded App
Disclosure
PressW runs its internal agent orchestration system on Anthropic's Claude
“Then we orchestrated all in our own little application that is largely built on top of Claude and Claude code both together.”
Tarun Thummala Jan 12, 2026 ▶ 40:18 #2293 $2 million / year AI engineering firm
Disclosure
Shipper: Every uses Claude Projects for developmental and copy editing
“Basically we have a cloud project with all of this stuff in it. That can do copy editing, can do developmental editing. So like helping you figure out like which ideas are interesting and why, or where's the hook for the article, that kind of stuff.”
Dan Shipper Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 33:11 #2283 How Dan Shipper uses AI to build artisanal AI apps
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