Claude Code's PMF is orders of magnitude stronger than ChatGPT's.
Claude Code's PMF is orders of magnitude stronger than ChatGPT's. Despite ChatGPT's being much larger on an absolute basis. Every bit of Claude Code usage i...
Topic: Claude
302 mentions · 217 chunks · 92 episodes
40.2× distinctiveness vs baseline
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2.6x burst in 2026 Q1
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- Claude appears in 217 chunks across 92 episodes, from 2024-04-08 to 2026-10-12.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 1/26/26 (2026-01-26), with 8 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Claude Code, wild west, and Anthropic, while by chunk count it sits between llms and Google; its yearly rank moved from #16 in 2024 to #2 in 2026.
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When I start tasks now, I often create a new local repo, git init, and run Claude.
When I start tasks now, I often create a new local repo, git init, and run Claude. I find I do this for any task that even possibly might accumulate some code or data. A Claude web app session is about the chat primarily. A Claude ...
The codebase matters less than the process to create it.
...le information is what the developer told the LLM in the process of creation in Claude Code. Yet Claude Code deletes those transcripts after 30 days today. Those chat logs should be treated with more respect than the resulting code!
If you aren't using claude code you're being left behind.
If you aren't using claude code you're being left behind.
We've left the Generative AI era and entered the Agentic AI era.
... era. They can do agentic things, but almost as an accidental bonus. Tools like Claude Code are fundamentally agentic. They look kind of like a chatbot, but that's incidental. A couple of years ago people tried to wrap LLMs and create a...
Wild West roundup for this week:
Wild West roundup for this week: Data Exfil from Agents in Messaging Apps. Claude Desktop Extensions Exposes Over 10,000 Users to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. 'Summarise with AI' can secretly sway recommendations, researche...
In case you missed it: a tweet about how Claude Cowork accidentally deleted his wife's 15k photos.
In case you missed it: a tweet about how Claude Cowork accidentally deleted his wife's 15k photos. These tools are like rusty chainsaws. Impossible to make safe enough for mass market in their curr...
In the Chatbot form factor the chat is a party trick.
... form factor the chat is a party trick. "Look, it talks just like a person!" In Claude Code, chat is merely a natural-language way to accomplish the end you actually care about. The chat is incidental. This works for Claude Code… but al...
The Claude ads about ads in ChatGPT are hilarious.
The Claude ads about ads in ChatGPT are hilarious. The idea of something that feels like your friend who has an ulterior motive is just so fundamentally icky.
Claude Code is a different kind of thing than Claude.
Claude Code is a different kind of thing than Claude. (Or any consumer chatbot.) They're both, superficially, a chatbot. But they feel radically different. ...
Claude Code unlocks a new order of magnitude of output for engineers.
Claude Code unlocks a new order of magnitude of output for engineers.[cg] With things like Cursor autocomplete, it was possible to work the same way you did...
Excellent piece from Jasmine Sun about Claude Code Psychosis.
Excellent piece from Jasmine Sun about Claude Code Psychosis. In it she describes how people who know parkour see stairs differently. They're constantly asking themselves, "could I scale that?" S...
The users of Claude Code aren't necessarily developers.
The users of Claude Code aren't necessarily developers. Developer implies "makes software for others." But some people using Claude Code are just using it to make softwa...
Will non-PMs ever write their own software?
Will non-PMs ever write their own software? Claude Code asks you lots of structured questions. But many of those questions are hard to answer if you can't think like a PM and at a very high level like...
When you're applying calibrated judgment you're adding value.
...you feel like just a traffic cop shuttling information from someone to and from Claude Code you're still exercising judgment about what to share.
A trick I've used to stop myself from getting stuck in an infinite loop of feeding my Claudes.
...k I've used to stop myself from getting stuck in an infinite loop of feeding my Claudes. I typically have between 2 and 6 Claude Codes chugging on various projects. I often find myself saying "I'll just feed my Claudes quickly and then ...
I vibe-coded a book for my family.
...a book version with AI illustrations. I created an empty git repo and booted up Claude Code. I told it the background and also dictated the story as it currently existed. It's been honed over dozens of retellings. I told it my goal was ...
There are two kinds of people in the world today: those who have used Claude Code and those who haven't.
There are two kinds of people in the world today: those who have used Claude Code and those who haven't. Claude Code is a window into the future of what is possible with AI. People who haven't used it yet have much less of a s...
Clawdbot is the closest to what the future will look like.
Clawdbot i[cq]s the closest to what the future will look like. Claude Code, but for your life. Open, and under your control. Wildly, recklessly dangerous, and requires the user to be comfortable with the command line. B...
Rebecca Kaden: I Don't Want to Build Apps (or at least not the ones I actually use)
...ed with AI, the vast majority of people will not be directly creating software. Claude Code is 0.01% of consumers, and will never get much beyond that.