Anthropic and Open Source: Reading Between the Lines on a Very Big Rumor Something is shifting at Anthropic, and the AI community is paying attention. A short video clip circulating on X shows Dario Amodei apparently reacting to a post about open-source AI winning. The original tweet from Ahmad (@TheAhmadOsman) reads simply: “Contrary to the…
Anthropic Just Released a Free Prompting Workshop. Pay Attention. Most prompting advice you find online was written by people who poked at a model until something worked, then published it. Some of that advice is genuinely useful. A lot of it is pattern-matching dressed up as insight. When Anthropic’s own team releases a 24-minute workshop…
Anthropic Just Shipped a Design Tool, and the Quiet Implication Is Louder Than the Announcement If you blinked on April 17th you probably missed it. Anthropic posted a short video to X, the Claude account dropped a few sentences, and that was more or less the launch of Claude Design. No keynote, no sprawling blog…
Stop Building Agents. Start Packaging Knowledge. I’ve been thinking about something Barry Zhang and Mahesh Murag said at the AI Engineer Code Summit, and I can’t shake it. Sixteen minutes. Two Anthropic engineers. One idea that cuts through most of the noise in agentic AI right now. “Stop building agents. Build Skills instead.” Most people…
Claude Just Sat Down at Your Desk Monday, Anthropic shipped something that I think most people are processing too slowly. Claude can now control your computer. Mouse. Keyboard. Screen. Any app. Not through an API connector, not through a plugin, not through some fragile browser extension that breaks when a website updates its CSS. Claude…
The Study Nobody Is Reading Correctly Anthropic just published what they’re calling the largest qualitative study of AI users ever conducted. 81,000 people. One week. And most of the coverage I’ve seen misses the point entirely. Everyone is focused on the number. 81,000 is a big number, so people write about the number. But the…
Anthropic Just Told Us What Claude Is Actually For Most people read the release of a 33-page technical playbook and think “documentation update.” I read it and thought: this is a positioning move. Anthropic just told us, in explicit terms, how they want engineers to think about Claude going forward. Not as a chat interface….
Dario Amodei Put a Number on It. Now What? Anthropic’s CEO went on the New York Times podcast recently and said something most tech executives would never say out loud. He estimated there’s roughly a 20% chance that Claude is conscious. Not a metaphor. Not a dodge. An actual probability, stated publicly, by the person…
Anthropic Just Formalized What Good Agent Builders Already Knew Anthropic published a 30-page guide on building Skills for Claude, and I think the framing matters more than the technical details inside it. They’re not calling this prompt engineering. They’re calling it execution design. That shift in language is deliberate, and it reflects something real about…
