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Published · transcript-backedMentions personal use of Claude.
26 Jul 2026 Lenny's Podcast Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn
“A lot of actually thinking process and writing process are tied together for me personally. And so I think there are ways where I use Claude to augment my thinking, but what I want to make sure, and maybe this is what you're describing, is Claude doesn't take over all of my thinking for me.”
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- Diane Penn
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- 26 Jul 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Yeah. Man, I have so many questions here. This is so interesting. One is just there's concern people are going to start talking the way AI writes because they're talking to AI so much, and it's going to be like, "Dianne, it's not this, but it's that." I know that you're not doing that, but that's a concern people have. Let me just ask about that, I guess. Do you fear there's this brain-rot atrophy stuff people talk about it where you're just so reliant on AI now and we stop learning and thinking and overlaying AI thoughts on that, being so close to it and being so integrated with AI constantly? A lot of actually thinking process and writing process are tied together for me personally. And so I think there are ways where I use Claude to augment my thinking, but what I want to make sure, and maybe this is what you're describing, is Claude doesn't take over all of my thinking for me. And so I think depending on the situation, depending on how much more personal judgment I want to have in a situation, I might come up with my own POV first and then work with Claude through that, and making sure that I maintain my sense and tone throughout. I think there are then other things like updates. We have monthly business reviews, and then in those cases it's much more, I actually want it to be standard, and I want it to be much more like it gets a crystallized information in the right way. And I have a skill, and we're augmenting and improving our skill for that. I want to get to a place where the monthly business review, the writing of that, is potentially asymmetrically less valuable than the thinking. And so how do I get that piece delegated to Claude fully? And I'm more of a reviewer and a verifier of that information. So I think it depends on what you're using Claude for and what you're trying to convey, and is there asymmetrical value in delegating more to Claude. What I'm also hearing, the first tip is really great, which was think first, have a point of view, and then use Claude as a sparring partner almost to evolve the idea, push back on the idea.…
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