After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its “Yes, and...” culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind
As you've probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.
For 50 yrs we treated the supremacy of asset-light businesses as a permanent economic law But if AI commoditizes asset-light businesses, we'd just be reverting to the historical mean where value accrued to atoms, infrastructure, energy It would be a 50 year blip. An anomaly
‘So now you see how the magic starts and ends. During Golden Ages, there is more work than people. And when they crash, it is because there are more people than work.’ — steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropi...
Steve Yegge writes about Anthropic's culture. Nothing concrete, mostly vibes. — He says it has that early Google/Amazon lightning in a bottle energy. — He notes Google lost that energy when Larry Page pivoted to focus on profits, killed 20% time and suddenly had too many peo…
Anthropic operates a high-velocity “hive mind” with ≈90-day planning cycles, versioned workstreams, and claimed 10×-1000× developer productivity, enabling rapid productization such as Claude Cowork, launched publicly about 10 days after conception.