Tag: Anthropic

  • ”Extrapolating these results to the economy, current generation AI models could increase annual US labor productivity growth by 1.8% over the next decade. This would double the annual growth the US has seen since 2019, and places our estimate towards the upper end of recent estimates. ” 🔗 Estimating AI productivity gains, Anthropic

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  • Claude Skills are top on my list of “important things no one is talking about” for this year. They’re both an AIPaaS and showing a new programming model and mindset. The educational angle (“View Source”) is a good take. 🔗 What MCP and Claude Skills Teach Us About Open Source for AI The original is…

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  • Playing D&D is the perfect test case for this. Can Claude “remember” the lengthy sessions from last month? // Managing that memory has been a huge part of the toolchain for playing D&D with Claude. It often gets the gender of characters wrong, as a simple example. Recently, just have access to previous chat sessions…

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  • Gemini could lap ChatGPT in app features

    This would be great. I implicitly trust Google because my stuff is there. While I love using ChatGPT and Gemini, I have less trust in their security (they just don’t have the track record yet) and even less on their morals and law-following (they obviously blatantly violated copyright for their models). // If things keep…

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  • Anthropic is building a PaaS.

    Anthropic is building a PaaS. They’ve got isolated VM’s/containers, they’ve thought out support languages for the major languages. You can even write code in the browser…with the AI. And it checks your stuff into GitHub? Plus, of course, it runs your code for you, at least with Claude Skills. 🔗 Claude Code for web –…

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  • Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption – 🤖: “Enterprise deployment via Anthropic’s API exposes a different facet: businesses adopt AI programmatically to automate. 77% of API usage is automation-dominant, particularly in coding, debugging, office administration, and recruitment. Surprisingly, firms are not especially price-sensitive; higher-cost tasks see higher adoption if they deliver…

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  • Anthropic lets Claude remember previous interactions to streamline work – Including, and using, past chats in your current chat. Always a great, helpful feature.

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  • 10 Months into AI Agents : Which Are Used Most? – Feels like it’s primarily about supporting programming, not doing things in apps. // Not sure about the methodology and source for this chart, tho.

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  • A consumption basket approach to measuring AI progress – “In contrast, actual human users typically deploy AIs to help them with relatively easy problems. They use AIs for (standard) legal advice, to help with the homework, to plot travel plans, to help modify a recipe, as a therapist or advisor, and so on. You could…

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  • A think tool

    A think tool

    Giving AI an inner-voice with Model Context Protocol I separated out a “think tool” from my agentic D&D project this week. The think tool is stupidly simple: all it does it echo back whatever the AI sends it. The original write-up from Anthropic makes it seems a little more mystical, but it doesn’t take long…

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  • Agents are models using tools in a loop – “Agents are models using tools in a loop,” Anthropic’s Hannah Moran.

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  • Patience, plumbing, and the pricing of everything

    Patience, plumbing, and the pricing of everything

    Relative to your interests When was peak message in a bottle? – Only 80s kids will get this: “grandfather clocks; suits of armour; quicksand; spontaneous human combustion.” Also: big foot and UFOs. Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? – Checks out on both sides. Pricing: A List of Tactics – Some mind-tricks to play with pricing.…

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  • Anthropic closes $2.5 billion credit facility – “Annualized revenue reached $2 billion in the first quarter, the company confirmed, more than doubling from a $1 billion rate in the prior period. Revenue chief Kate Jensen said in a recent interview with CNBC that the number of customers spending more than $100,000 annually with Anthropic jumped…

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  • Is Fine-Tuning or Prompt Engineering the Right Approach for AI? – As it says.

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