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app / uses
“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.”
book / likes
“One personal one, I really like How to Raise an Adult. So I'm a mom. I think a lot about what is the things that I want to instill in my kids.”
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01 / recommendation
“One personal one, I really like How to Raise an Adult. So I'm a mom. I think a lot about what is the things that I want to instill in my kids. And that book is really helpful for describing, we're not trying to raise children, we're trying to raise adults. So just the framing of what does that mean? And what does it mean, what are the characteristics that we want to hone and harness and foster in our kids? The other book that I was listening to on Audible recently is Incorrigible by Eric Reese. So the author-”
02 / recommendation
“One personal one, I really like How to Raise an Adult. So I'm a mom. I think a lot about what is the things that I want to instill in my kids.”
03 / evaluation
“And my grandfather always says, no matter how far you go, there's always another level, which is, I think, a really good way, though a pretty intense way of describing his life philosophy.”
04 / evaluation
“In 2023 when I started, nobody said Anthropic and Claude and coding in the same sentence.”
05 / evaluation
“So what we actually look for and the traits and how we evaluate generalists like PMs, generalists like research, product managers have actually been the same. So I think some of those traits, number one is first principles thinking.”
06 / belief
“One thing that I think I feel pretty strongly about is in order to be good managers of teams and PMs working with this technology, you have to be really hands-on yourself and have spent not just time tinkering, but actually shipping with this technology.”
07 / belief
“What does it mean then to have a discontinuous bet? And I think one approach that we're taking this year is you can be very strongly held opinion about the theme or the area, and then more weakly held about the exact prototype.”
08 / belief
“Now that that's improved a bit, then it's, well, now it's these other areas actually become more of the rough edges. And so I think we're in one of those moments worth writing where we need to actually just focus and prioritize on training the models to be great at this area.”
09 / belief
“We know that the models could write great essays or could write long form writing, but individual pain points of what can you actually solve with that and bring it to a user level that people can use, I think is something that is more exploration or experimentation based.”
10 / belief
“I would say during some time off last month, I did get to binge-watch Fallout on Amazon Prime.”
11 / belief
“Most traders, I think, are in front of a terminal. They're much more doing analyses on their computers, but it's still very, I would say, male-dominated.”
12 / belief
“I think the role of people who are user-centric, who go into the details of understanding what users are trying to accomplish, bubbling that up in an actionable manner and doing the relentless work to do that, that, to me, is a core of a product person.”
13 / belief
“I think our goal is to not have that happen for the general purpose, general use technologies and to make it more accessible.”
14 / belief
“I think the folks that would be most successful, regardless of their level, are people who love working with AI and are exploring and experimenting. And carving out the time, not just for the experimentation, but actually hands-on shipping end-to-end, getting the user feedback, I think has to be fundamental for everyone.”
15 / belief
“I think there's product overhang and user overhang, to maybe put it in our PM language, even on today's models. And I think there's a lot that we could be exploring on our current opuses and definitely with Fable, for example.”
16 / belief
“One thing I ask the team frequently or how I think about when we're building a product is let's say Claude 8 comes around.”
17 / observation
“For my team, the way to drive user value is to figure out the right user feedback.”
18 / belief
“I think a lot of the most successful researchers and research leadership at Anthropic are folks who are really strong first principles thinkers about problems.”
19 / belief
“I think the best way to find my work, my team's work is really the Anthropic blog and when we're publishing new models, new product experiences.”
20 / prediction
“I think the product question and how we interact with these internally is, I think as you mentioned, as frontier models become more capable, the safeguards and the ways of red teaming and testing and the pre-release process also needs to evolve and adapt quickly to address that.”
21 / recommendation
“If you only measure revenue and then that's how you're going against. But if you have other better metrics, that's actually the way to sustain the values you care about.”
22 / evaluation
“I think there's some really interesting graphs in the original scaling law papers. And I think folks are very familiar with the scaling loss in the lens of as you add in more compute and data, what's called loss, AKA the loss from next token prediction goes down.”
23 / recommendation
“I think one area that it's not more recent, but one that I bring up a lot with the team and I think we could do more on using AI is just how to use it to also have better conversations with each other, to be better managers.”
24 / evaluation
“I think one example is I think you think of a product manager as I own product strategy and delivering user value, but I demonstrate day-to-day by writing a PRD or writing a product vision doc.”
25 / recommendation
“How do we invest in explaining the differences to users? So a lot of the experiences I think of being in that exponential is that pace, understanding how you operate and make better decisions, and then applying that first principle's thinking to then do something that maybe we pull up a plan that we're expecting a few months from now, but now the model can actually do and work on and actually bring that to users.”
26 / commitment
“That to me was one of those maybe hidden inflection points of we were starting to find our identity, that we could build products, build experiences that were different from what our competitors had seen, what was already out there. And I think that obviously Labs, Claude Code, et cetera, we then started to identify ourselves as would we actually think the world, how to think about AI, how to bring that closer to the public.”
27 / evaluation
“On some of these other areas, we're not quite there yet. And so I think you're seeing us shift things like Claude Science investing in these areas because those are areas that I think is just bring this technology to society and having a positive benefit for society.”
28 / recommendation
“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.”