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includes Claude Code, Claude Opus, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude 4, Claude Sonnet, Claude Desktop, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Haiku, Claude 2, Claude 4.6, Claude 4.6 Opus, Claude Cowork and 2 more

22 statements across 10 episodes · 13 bullish · 0 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Nov 1, 2024 by Harj Taggar · said 350 times in 37 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Boris Cherny (102), Garry Tan (78), Diana Hu (19), Calvin French-Owen (18), Jared Kaplan (11), Tom Blomfield (9), Harj Taggar (8), Peter Steinberger (5)

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Everything said about Claude, oldest first

Nov 1, 2024 bullish
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Taggar: Claude jumped from 5% to 25% market share in YC startups
“And some of the stuff that really stood out is Claude has, even just in six months, from the winter batch to the summer batch, has gone from, like, five percent developer market share to, like, 25%.”
Harj Taggar Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 13:06 The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
May 30, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Hu: Claude is naturally human-steerable while Llama requires heavy prompting
“One of the things that's known a lot is Claude is sort of the more happy and more human steerable model, and the other one is Lama. Four is one that needs a lot more steering. It's almost like talking to a developer, and part of it could be an artifact of not …”
Diana Hu May 30, 2025 ▶ 26:28 State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Kaplan: Founders should build products that current AI cannot quite support
“One is I think it's really a good idea to build things that don't quite work yet. This is probably always a good idea. We always want to have ambition, but I think specifically AI models right now are getting better very, very quickly. And I think that's going…”
Jared Kaplan Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 13:48 Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan · Y Combinator
Jul 29, 2025 neutral
Insight
Kaplan: Training frontier AI requires only next-word prediction and reinforcement learning
“So really all there is to training these models is learning to predict the next word and then doing reinforcement learning to learn to do useful tasks.”
Jared Kaplan Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 4:09 Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan · Y Combinator
Aug 26, 2025
Disclosure
Legora hot-swaps Claude, Gemini, GPT, and Mistral models interchangeably on AWS
“So we use AWS and Claude and Gemini and GPT and Mistral kind of interchangeably. The biggest thing there has been, how do we build everything in such a way where we can hot swap the models whenever we want, and also build it in such a way that the models becom…”
Max Junestrand Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 24:10 How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
Feb 17, 2026 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Mercury data shows 70 percent of startups choose Claude
“There was some stuff from Mercury that like, 70% of startups are, you know, choosing quad as their model of choice.”
Boris Cherny Feb 17, 2026 ▶ 47:10 Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
Feb 17, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Cherny believes most agents today are prompted as Claude subagents
“I haven't pulled the data on this, but I would bet the majority of agents are actually prompted by quad today in the form of subagents.”
Boris Cherny Feb 17, 2026 ▶ 23:24 Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
Feb 17, 2026 bullish
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Cherny predicts Claude will increasingly discover product ideas by analyzing logs
“And I think Quad is going to get increasingly good at kind of figuring out these kind of product ideas for you, just because it can look at feedback, it can look at debug logs, it can kind of figure this out.”
Boris Cherny Feb 17, 2026 ▶ 29:21 Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
Feb 17, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Cherny claims recent Claude Opus models execute plans without babysitting
“And nowadays what I find with Opus 4.5, I think it started with 4.6, it got really good. Once the plan is good, it just stays on track, and it'll just do the thing exactly right almost every time.”
Boris Cherny Feb 17, 2026 ▶ 27:30 Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
Feb 17, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Claude generates between 70 and 90 percent of Anthropic's codebase
“If you look at Anthropic overall, it ranges between, like, 70 to 90% you know, depending on the team. For a lot of teams, it's also, like, a hundred percent. For a lot of people, it's a hundred percent.”
Boris Cherny Feb 17, 2026 ▶ 44:06 Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
Apr 16, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Vuong: Claude-based on-call agent boosted compute utilization by 50%
“We have a Claude skill that essentially serving the role of a pre-training on call today. So, you know, we have these pre-training runs that are really large it's very, I think, a difficult exercise to keep them alive, to, you know, for them to continue to chu…”
Quan Vuong Apr 16, 2026 ▶ 47:12 The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hassabis: Frontier models will call specialized tools rather than subsume them
“One thing I can think see happening is Gemini, Claude, or one of these general systems making use of alpha fold, like specialized systems as tools. I don't think we're going to have it just in one giant brain because it will have too much regression in if I pu…”
Demis Hassabis Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 39:51 Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
May 8, 2026 positive
Insight
Garry Tan: Prompting Claude for ASCII diagrams dramatically improves code completeness
“One of the things I discovered is sometimes Claude would just get confused and like write bugs or not be complete. But once I started saying, actually, before you start your work, make an ASCII diagram of all the data flows, all the inputs and outputs. What ar…”
Garry Tan May 8, 2026 ▶ 10:38 Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
May 8, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Tan: Claude models are very good but not the smartest
“Claude Code is ideal for the ADHD CEO, but once in a while, there's a, you know, Claude Code will just BS a bunch of stuff, like Claude models are very, very good, but like, they are not the smartest, it turns out.”
Garry Tan May 8, 2026 ▶ 17:21 Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
Jul 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Cherny: Verification loops are the most important overlooked aspect of AI prompting
“I think the skill nowadays is less about prompt engineering and more about figuring out how do you give Cloud a hard task that seems a little bit too hard? And then how do you make it possible for Cloud to verify its work along the way? And the verification, I…”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 20:13 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
Jul 27, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cherny: Claude still struggles with systems code, distributed systems, and UI verification
“So coding is solved for the kind of coding that I do. It's not solved for everyone. You know, there's still code bases that are like super deep systems code bases where quad still struggles. There's distributed systems where quad still struggles. There's reall…”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 30:40 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
Jul 27, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Cherny: Anthropic uses Claude routines to maintain its own apps via Slack
“We actually have Cloud maintaining itself now. And the way we do this is we have a Slack channel where we just had Cloud start a bunch of different routines to maintain its own code base. And we actually do this for the CLI, for the iOS app, for the Android ap…”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 28:12 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
Jul 27, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cherny: Modern models can rewrite essentially any codebase into another language
“One example is the model can now rewrite essentially any code base from one language to a different language.”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 15:46 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
Jul 27, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cherny: Claude autonomously created a Slack channel to live-blog task progress
“And actually in this case, Quad also decided to live blog it. So what it did is it created a Slack channel internally, and it started just posting screenshots every few minutes of its progress.”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 22:48 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
Jul 27, 2026
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Cherny: Claude Is More Intelligent Without System Prompts
“And what's interesting is that the model is actually a little bit more intelligent without these prompts. That's something that we've been finding.”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 5:06 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
Jul 27, 2026 bullish
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Cherny: Claude routines do the maintenance work of hundreds of engineers
“And so now we have every day, maybe 20 or 30 of these routines. It's running across all of our code bases and It's not totally there yet, but we're on the path to fully automating the maintenance of our apps by doing this. And this is, again, hundreds of agent…”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 29:40 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
Jul 29, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Chaubard: AI models are recursively distilling into one another, Claude into Kimi
“What I think is kind of happening right now, but like clawed kind of mother birds into, Kimmy too, and then now Kimmy too is post-training thinking machines, and so it just keeps going and going.”
Francois Chaubard Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 6:51 Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
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