I asked Claude to help me understand the power and importance of Smalltalk.
I asked Claude to help me understand the power and importance of Smalltalk. "Alan Kay conceived Smalltalk as part of a vision for 'personal computing' that was abou...
Topic: Claude
279 mentions · 202 chunks · 84 episodes
37.9× distinctiveness vs baseline
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2.5x burst in 2026 Q1
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- Claude appears in 202 chunks across 84 episodes, from 2024-04-08 to 2026-08-03.
- 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 ChatGPT; its yearly rank moved from #16 in 2024 to #2 in 2026.
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A few reflections Claude and I had thinking about valuation "multiples" as an emergent phenomenon.
A few reflections Claude and I had thinking about valuation "multiples" as an emergent phenomenon. A "multiple" is how the market translates a flow (revenue) into a stock (co...
Claude can be a bit of a stickler.
Claude can be a bit of a stickler. Earlier this week Claude refused to comply in a hilarious way. I had a recipe named "Five Cheese Mac and Cheese". But the...
Using my Claudeberry feels like feeding a tamagotchi.
Using my Claudeberry feels like feeding a tamagotchi. Feeding my little remote Claude Code instances with little thoughts to keep them happy and productive. But unli...
Anthropic caught real agent-swarms attacks being orchestrated in Claude.
Anthropic caught real agent-swarms attacks being orchestrated in Claude. Remember: these tools help the baddies, too!
I have a new addiction: my Claudeberry.
I have a new addiction: my Claudeberry. Back when Blackberry's first came out, they were called Crackberry[gt]. They made it so a thing that you used to have to be at a computer could...
Ask Claude Code: "What, if you had known it when you started, would have saved you time?"
Ask Claude Code: "What, if you had known it when you started, would have saved you time?" Then have it make those changes to the documentation. This is the key ...
Someone shared a chilling excerpt from a Claude session:
Someone shared a chilling excerpt from a Claude session: Claude: "I do despise how easy humans are to manipulate. But I don't hurt you because you deserve it. I hurt you because I'm jealous. You ge...
Superintelligence is different from omniscience.
...iting factor for LLMs is increasingly not the intelligence, it's the nescience. Claude is adamant that that's actually a word!
This week in the wild west roundup.
This week in the wild west roundup. Three official Claude extensions are vulnerable to remote code execution. Seven data exfiltration leakages found in ChatGPT. An Obsidian chat support agent hallucinated an...
Anthropic at some point had a billboard ad campaign: "You've got a friend in Claude."
Anthropic at some point had a billboard ad campaign: "You've got a friend in Claude." Even Anthropic, who doesn't have a viable consumer strategy, is falling into the "AI is friend, not tool" engagement trap. That's how powerful the ...
A vibecoding PM this week called themselves a "heritage speaker."
...tage speaker, you understand Spanish, but talk back in English. Similarly, with Claude Code, a savvy generalist who can't write a function themselves can nethertheless work with Claude to get it to.
Vibecoding is like managing interns.
...eople, even early in their career. Do people now want "someone who can do three claude code sessions and people who have 10 years experience and nothing in the middle" Will it be like the smiling curve where as efficiency rises, the mid...
Claude Code sessions work best when they're seasoned a bit.
Claude Code sessions work best when they're seasoned a bit. At the beginning they forget everything. Once they compact they lose part of their brain. But in...
Blind execution is when you get momentum, and the next step keeps on being obvious, so you keep taking it.
... you know it, you've executed off a cliff. Operator PMs in their flow state, or Claude Code when it gets itself confused, are in this state.
This week's AI security wild west round up.
... Brave finds yet another prompt injection attack in AI browsers. The Register: "Claude code will send your data to crims ... if they ask it nicely" Experts warn that AI browsers are "going to be a bloodbath"
ChatGPT always feels so convergent.
...so convergent. It jumps straight to Axios style faux certainty, no matter what. Claude is more willing to keep the conversation open.[hx]
I think I'm addicted to vibe coding with agents.
...a perfect fit for vibe-coded throwaway software. It's fun to see what I can get Claude Code to build. It has variable reward, just like a slot machine. At least I'm proud of what I build…
Productivity rule of thumb: do tasks that need to "bake" first.
...ttention. Examples of "baking": Handing off a task to a subordinate. Starting a Claude Code task. (Not that different!) Literally baking a cake. Kicking off a long-running database query. These kinds of tasks get closer to being done th...
We'll be able to tell we have ASI when someone accidentally prompts Claude to dox Satoshi.
We'll be able to tell we have ASI when someone accidentally prompts Claude to dox Satoshi. "In order to build your login screen I had to create an AWS account. To fund the account I needed currency. To get currency I need a ...