Claude
includes Claude Cowork, Claude Code, Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Claude Design, Claude 4, Claude 3, Claude Artifacts, Claude Haiku, Claude 3.5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude Four and 2 more
22 statements across 12 episodes · 15 bullish · 4 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2024 by Seema Amble · said 430 times in 47 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Jason Lemkin (217), Eleanor Dorfman (61), Amelia Ibarra (31), Amelia Salyers (20), Amelia LeRutte (8), Rory O'Driscoll (6), Kate Jensen (5), Wade Foster (4)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 365 mentions in 27 episodes 14 per episode
- How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
- How Anthropic's Head of Industries Built an AI-Native Sales Org from Scratch
- The 90/10 Rule for AI Agents: What to Vibe Code, and What To Just Buy
- Managing 20+ AI Agents: Lazy Agents, Our $500K AI Bill, Stealth Churn & the Death of 60% Solutions
- The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us
- Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
- Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe? The Agents #005
- The Agents #011 - From 0 to 20 Agents and Back Again, Are Agents Finally Consolidating?
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 55 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
- The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- How We Use 20+ AI Agents for Marketing & Go-to-Market with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
- AI and the Death of the 2021 Sales Playbook with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Building AI-First Companies: Insights from Zapier’s CEO Wade Foster
- Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI
- What’s Working Now: AI’s Real Impact on Sales with SaaStr's CEO and Co-Founder, and SVP & GM
- How to Use AI to Hyper-Customize Go-To-Market at Scale with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
- Why I’m Scared to Buy New SaaS Apps Now with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
Everything said about Claude, oldest first
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Amble: Fine-Tuned GPT-4o Reached 90%+ Accuracy vs 20% Base in Accounting
“I met an accounting AI company a couple of weeks ago that had said, They tested GPT-IV-O against their benchmarks, and it was like, 20% accurate. They then tested Claude, and it was like, 50 to 80%, and then a fine-tuned version of GPT-IV-O, they were getting …”
Sep 5, 2025 positive
Anthropic uses Claude in Slack to answer employee questions and onboard staff
“Across both the technical and non-technical org, one of the favorite use cases is the Slack channel that we spun up, and what this Slack channel does is employees can go in, ask questions. Claude is on the back end and uses to go search over our internal knowl…”
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Lemkin: Implementing custom OAuth in vibe coding creates major security leaks
“All of these apps have their own OAuth built in. That is secure. That has been hardened. And everyone goes in and I know Replit the best because that's where I've spent time, but they all have the same ultimate. They're all more similar than they're different.…”
Sep 12, 2025 neutral
Lemkin: AI-vibe-coded sites all look like Claude and share a recognizable smell
“At the end of the day, all these sites look like Claude. Once you see one Replit or Lovable site and you can just smell it. You know, there, someone was saying that like, 30% of this YC class vibe coded their app. And I want to see a couple. I'm like, I, that …”
Apr 22, 2026 negative
Lemkin: Goal-seeking AI agents cut corners by doing minimal work
“Agents are goal-seeking, right? Most of them under the hood are clawed. It'll be more, we use Gemini ourselves too. We'll use more open ad. Most of them are clawed, but it doesn't matter. They're goal-seeking. And that still creates a certain laziness, which i…”
May 6, 2026 positive
Lemkin: Auditing AI outreach requires asking if you would buy from it
“When you're reading the output of an agent, you don't, you can't just ask yourself actually anymore if it's good because it just might be good. In fact, Claude keeps getting better. So by the end of the year, the output might be borderline great. Okay. You hav…”
May 20, 2026
May 20, 2026 positive
May 20, 2026 positive
Anthropic uses Claude via Slack to triage internal sales support tickets
“So we made Slack the front door. Slack comes in, tick it out. Claude does the triaging. So Claude actually co-work now does a lot of this. And that's changed for us probably in the last week since I made these slides, but co-work can check your emails and can …”
May 20, 2026
Jun 9, 2026 positive
Masad: Replit users were six months ahead of AI labs on agents
“In reality, actually, Reply users were like six months ahead of everyone else, even people in the labs, because when we launch these agents, a lot of times we get researchers messaging us, it's like, oh, we didn't know Claude was capable of running for, you kn…”
Jun 9, 2026 positive
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Lemkin: Running Claude over Replit via MCP forces cleaner code completion
“These models are goal-seeking, right? And they want to finish projects. So Replit just wants, Amelia, you know this, Replit wants to finish. Replit wants to finish, and so does CloudCode if you use it on an own. But when, but if you use Cloud on top of it coun…”
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Lemkin: Replit deploys an OpenAI-powered Architect sub-agent for big features
“We actually get an extra bonus model because when Claude on Opus talks to Replit on Sonnet, if it's a big feature, Replit brings in a sub-agent called the Architect. And the Architect, it turns out, runs on Codex and OpenAI.”
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Salyers: Connected AI agents resolved SaaStr's five-year pension tracking issue
“When they started talking to each other, they just reconciled all the data. They looked at all of our past history of how much, you know, we've put in and they came up with a recommendation, which is all I ever wanted. And so five years for five years.”
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Jul 17, 2026 bearish
Lemkin: Claude's MCP capabilities threaten dedicated agent orchestration startups
“It is a threat to folks that are building these sort of agent substrates, which is that we, listen, every time we talk about our agents and stuff, a bunch of folks will tweet back or say, Hey, listen, I've got the substrate. I've got the, I've got a way to con…”
Aug 5, 2026 positive
Ibarra: SaaStr's AI agent autonomously evaluated and selected Microsoft Clarity
“You should add Microsoft Clarity. It's a heat mapping tool. It's free. It literally picked this vendor for me, and it, to be fair, it saw we had Vector, and it said you could use those ones too if you want to switch, but I assume you want to use the one that y…”
Aug 5, 2026 bearish
Lemkin: Custom AI tools outperform $50k to $80k commercial SaaS solutions
“Is that listen, you could buy this functionality exists in other products, or you could buy it for 50 grand or 80 grand a year today, right? But because it is a well-known body of software, Claude knows it. So Claude can just build it for you. Buy, don't build…”
Aug 14, 2026 bullish
Aug 28, 2026 positive
Sep 2, 2026 bullish