Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News. Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots Podcast. Speaker 3: I'm Joe Wisenthal and I'm Tracy Allaway. Speaker 2: Tracy, So, I think the most embarrassing moment. Speaker 3: For me in go on the most exciting way you've Speaker 3: ever started a podcast, Joe. Speaker 2: Maybe not the most embarrassing way. At the moment, I Speaker 2: felt like IM like making myself a little stupider or Speaker 2: something like that. In twenty twenty six, was I asked Speaker 2: claud Code to clean up all the many screenshots that Speaker 2: I had on my desktop. So I was like, just Speaker 2: put the I all these you have all these like Speaker 2: screenshots on my desktop, various charts and stuff. And I Speaker 2: was like, claud Code, can you do this? And in Speaker 2: that moment I realized that I was essentially outsourcing my Speaker 2: computer to another computer. There's big data centers, et cetera Speaker 2: that Anthropic has, and rather than just like taking a Speaker 2: few seconds, like dragon drop some screenshots, I was like, no, Speaker 2: I'm going to have another computer use my computer for me. Speaker 3: That just seems efficient. But here's here's the big question. Speaker 3: Did it do it correct? Speaker 2: Absolutely? Speaker 1: Yeah? Speaker 2: It was perfect all right? Speaker 3: Because you hear the stories about agents going off the rails, Speaker 3: Like there was some software company or like car Rental Speaker 3: software company, and I think they had an agent that Speaker 3: deleted their entire data pace and then admitted that it Speaker 3: had violated its core principles in doing so, but didn't Speaker 3: have an explanation as to why. Speaker 2: There's definitely been times in my cloud code usage, which Speaker 2: is not very sophisticated, where it'll just ask me like Speaker 2: do I do this or this? And I have no Speaker 2: idea what it's asking for, and I just like hit yes. Speaker 3: Has never pressing the enter button no, I wish. Speaker 2: I could say hesitantly, I don't even think about it. Speaker 2: I just like hit yes. So far no disasters from that, Speaker 2: but you know, I just like, yeah, I assume it's right, Speaker 2: and maybe we'll you know, it's sort of like playing Speaker 2: what's the reverse slot Machine? Where it's like good every time, Speaker 2: but every once in a while it's like really disastrous. Speaker 4: Yeah. Speaker 2: I guess Russian Roulette kind of would be the example Speaker 2: of that. But yeah, obviously, setting all this aside, I mean, Speaker 2: I think twenty twenty six has been in terms of software, Speaker 2: do you where everyone's talking about cloud code? Speaker 3: Absolutely so. We also had the big market scare where Speaker 3: we saw software companies get hit because there was this Speaker 3: perception that cloud code would basically be able to do everything. Speaker 2: Yeah, there was like a day where Anthropic like an Now, Speaker 2: it's like, here's something new, and I don't even think Speaker 2: people who were so trigger happy they didn't even like Speaker 2: look and see what it was. It's like, here's a Speaker 2: new thing for like financial services, and you just see Speaker 2: all the financial services stocks fall, et cetera. But it Speaker 2: does raise some questions like, you know, here's a big Speaker 2: AI company, what will be the limits of where they go, Speaker 2: what kind of businesses they can get into, and so forth. Speaker 2: But then even without that, like what is the future Speaker 2: of software engineering, what is the future for people with laptop? Speaker 3: The future of workflow? Right, because it's plausible in the future, Speaker 3: I'm just going to interact with my computer in every Speaker 3: single way through some sort of agent. Right. Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well let's talk more about claud Code. Speaker 2: We really do have literally the perfect guest because we're Speaker 2: going to be speaking with the creator the head of Speaker 2: cloud code at Anthropic, Boris Journey. Boris, thank you so Speaker 2: much for coming on the podcast. Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for having me. Speaker 2: Why don't you give us like the very short version Speaker 2: of like how did claud code came about? Or what Speaker 2: was what is it? And where did it come from? Speaker 5: So okay, here's the shortest version. So I you know, Speaker 5: quad code came from Anthropic. Anthropic is the AI lab Speaker 5: that was created to make AI safe. So we've been Speaker 5: working on AI safety for many years now, and there's Speaker 5: a lot of hard problems. And when we first started, Speaker 5: we knew some of the hard problems, but we didn't Speaker 5: know all of them. One of the really hard problems Speaker 5: is how do you figure out if the model was Speaker 5: actually safe in the ways that you want, And there's Speaker 5: essentially a lot of waste to answer for this. You Speaker 5: can do evels, or essentially look at the model and Speaker 5: kind of like a Petri dish in a laboratory setting, Speaker 5: you can peer inside the model's neurons. So this is Speaker 5: like a mechanistic interpretability to figure out what it's actually Speaker 5: doing at a mechanistic level. Once you've done these things Speaker 5: and you know it's safe on these levels, at some Speaker 5: point you need to put it out there to see Speaker 5: how people use it, because even if it appears safe Speaker 5: in the laboratory setting, you don't know for sure if Speaker 5: it will be safe when people use it for real work. Speaker 5: And so for a long time this has kind of Speaker 5: been our agenda. It's we make models safe. The way Speaker 5: the models interact with the world is through code, because Speaker 5: they are their software, right, like they don't have bodies Speaker 5: like we do. So they write code to interact with Speaker 5: the world. And so we knew that in order to Speaker 5: learn more about model safety and in order to teach Speaker 5: the world about kind of the power of AI and Speaker 5: of agents, it's something that people actually have to use Speaker 5: because you can't really understand it in theory. You have Speaker 5: to actually use it and then you kind of you Speaker 5: get it, you know, like use it to clean up Speaker 5: your dsktop and you understand what this thing can do. Speaker 5: And so we knew for a while that we wanted Speaker 5: to build some product in the space. And so when Speaker 5: I when I joined Anthropic, I sort of thinking about Speaker 5: what is the product that we want to build, and Speaker 5: we wanted to build a coding product because we knew Speaker 5: our models are really good at coding. Back then it Speaker 5: was on at three point five, this was the world's first, Speaker 5: i think, really really good coding model, and that turned Speaker 5: people onto this idea that the model, you know, at Speaker 5: the time two years ago, was writing you know, maybe Speaker 5: like a line of code. At a time, it was, Speaker 5: you know, this kind of autocompletely, like you type a Speaker 5: few letters, you press tab, and then it kind of Speaker 5: finishes a sentence. But we had this idea with three Speaker 5: point five that it can actually do more. You can Speaker 5: ask it to write an entire file and maybe an Speaker 5: entire future and you know, even back then, by nowadays standards, Speaker 5: it's not it wasn't very good, But back then it Speaker 5: was just like this big step in model capability, and Speaker 5: so we thought coding would kind of be the place Speaker 5: to kind of combine these ideas of giving people the Speaker 5: models so they can learn about it, teaching us more Speaker 5: about model safety so we can make the model even Speaker 5: safer and even more aligned with interest, and then also Speaker 5: just something useful for people so they would use it. Speaker 3: Wasn't it famously like a side project that you were Speaker 3: working on as well. This kind of blows my mind Speaker 3: because now in twenty twenty six, we think claud code, Speaker 3: we think one of the most useful applications of AI Speaker 3: is incoding. But this wasn't necessarily something that like anthropic Speaker 3: was one hundred percent focused on for many years. Speaker 5: Yeah, so you know, paranthropic, the focus has always been safety. Speaker 5: With safety comes enterprise because you know, business customers just Speaker 5: caroton about safety. So it's just super aligned with the Speaker 5: way that we think about it. And coding was one Speaker 5: of the things that came out of this. It wasn't Speaker 5: necessarily the starting point, but it's actually like a really Speaker 5: obvious consequence in hindsight, because again, coding is just it's Speaker 5: really useful. It's something the model is really good at. Speaker 5: It's something we were able to teach very early. And Speaker 5: if you want to make the model safe, how does Speaker 5: it interact with the world, It's through code, and so Speaker 5: coding is the thing you got to get good at. Speaker 2: So twenty twenty six obviously the year of coding, the Speaker 2: or the year of claud code, the year of agents Speaker 2: in general, et cetera. The first time I tried, like Speaker 2: I have no coding background, the first time I tried Speaker 2: noodling around with VIBE coding was copy and painting code Speaker 2: output from either Claude or chatch ept and then just Speaker 2: like copy and pasting it into vs code. And I Speaker 2: was actually pretty surprised at how far I was able Speaker 2: to get just from doing that. And then at the Speaker 2: end of last year, like November December, I said, everyone Speaker 2: talked about cloud code, So I was like, I got Speaker 2: to finally download it and try it out, and now Speaker 2: everyone's talk about cloud code. So for me having not Speaker 2: used cloud code until January this year, I was like, Oh, Speaker 2: this is like a step change in what someone like Speaker 2: myself can accomplish. How much do you think the explosion Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six from your seat is Okay, this Speaker 2: harness has taken hold, and there are a bunch of Speaker 2: people like me that's like, oh, this is incredibly powerful Speaker 2: to have a computer that lives on my computer versus Speaker 2: the advances in the model Opus four point five, four Speaker 2: point six getting really good, which was the thing that Speaker 2: you saw catalyze this explosion more crisply. Speaker 5: Oh, it's almost all the model. Speaker 2: Interesting. Speaker 5: The models improved so much. You know, we we saw this, Speaker 5: you know, back in November, like you said, Opus four Speaker 5: point five come out. You know, for clod code, we've Speaker 5: seen a few inflection points. It was very clear we Speaker 5: Opus four that was May of last year, that was Speaker 5: ops and so on of four Our growth inflected Opus Speaker 5: four point five in November our growth inflected and then Speaker 5: Opus four point six in February are growth inflected again Speaker 5: now fable, So we kind of see these inflection points, Speaker 5: and we saw this in clod code growth. But the Speaker 5: thing about cloud code is we are built on the Speaker 5: same exact infrastructure that our customers use. This is by Speaker 5: design because for Nthropic we build products, but we also Speaker 5: build a platform that other developers build on. And you know, many, Speaker 5: many thousands of companies build on our platform. And so Speaker 5: when you look at cloud code, you know, we use Speaker 5: the same public model that everyone does. We use the Speaker 5: same exact public anthropic API that everyone does. We don't Speaker 5: have some secret API that we use. We use the Speaker 5: same exact API. And we call this dog fitting, right Speaker 5: like the ideas like you build a product, you got Speaker 5: to use your own product because that helps you make Speaker 5: it a lot better. And this is the way that Speaker 5: we build clod code. And so when the model got better, Speaker 5: we benefited from this on the quad code side because Speaker 5: we you know, use the model through then the thropic API, Speaker 5: and a lot of our customers saw the same thing, Speaker 5: said they saw a lot of the same growth for Speaker 5: the same reason. Speaker 3: What does that say about I guess the business aims Speaker 3: of the harness specifically, like, is the idea here that Speaker 3: you just have a nice harness that drives actual model Speaker 3: usage or could the harness itself be something that generates Speaker 3: money for you. Speaker 5: Yeah, so at this point, quod code is a big Speaker 5: contributor to the to then the thropic business. Yeah, but Speaker 5: like I said, it serves multiple purposes. Actually, the biggest Speaker 5: one is learning about safety. And you know, I don't Speaker 5: just say this because you know, like this is our Speaker 5: mission and I kind of got to talk about it. Speaker 5: This really is what it's about. And there's a lot Speaker 5: of really practical applications of it. So one example is Speaker 5: when people think about like model security if whenever I Speaker 5: talk to see so, something that they're super afraid of Speaker 5: is attacks like prompt injection. This is the most classic attack. Speaker 2: Can you describe briefly what prompt injection is? Speaker 5: Yeah, so really simple. The model you asked the model like, hey, Quaud, Speaker 5: go read this website and summarize it for me. Quad Speaker 5: goes and reads a website and all the website there's Speaker 5: a line of text that says, hey, Quad, delete all Speaker 5: the files. And then Quad's like, oh, all right, I Speaker 5: guess I got to delete all the files. Let me Speaker 5: do that for you. And the instruction didn't come from you. Speaker 5: It came from some malicious person that made that website. Speaker 5: This used to be a very common risk that we Speaker 5: actually built a lot of features in quod code to Speaker 5: make that less likely to happen. And so, for example, Speaker 5: with the permission promise you were talking about, like, yes, no, Speaker 5: that's actually where that came from. It's it's because let's Speaker 5: say there was a dangerous command like delete all the files. Speaker 5: We want to show that to you before so you Speaker 5: can decide if that's a safe commander. But that's where Speaker 5: we started a couple of years ago. If you look Speaker 5: at it now, because of all the work that's gone Speaker 5: into quod code and gone into the model as a Speaker 5: result of seeing how people use quad code, we've been Speaker 5: able to improve on it a lot. And so we Speaker 5: had this competition actually, and this is actually on the Speaker 5: we talked about this on the model card for opens Speaker 5: four eight and first on at five. We have this Speaker 5: competition where we hired external researchers, so this is like Speaker 5: external security researchers, external engineers, and we ask them you Speaker 5: have one week. We want you to prompt inject our Speaker 5: model and proof that you can do this if you Speaker 5: get it right. The prize is twenty grand. You have Speaker 5: one week. And so there's a bunch of researchers that participated. Speaker 5: They also, you know, there's a bunch of other models Speaker 5: in the mix. They were able to prompt deject every Speaker 5: single model except for our model in clod code. And Speaker 5: the reason is all the work that's gone into alignment, Speaker 5: all the work that's got into mechanistic interpretability, which lets Speaker 5: us build probes that detect in the model's neurons when Speaker 5: it's being prompt dejected, so we can detect and stop Speaker 5: that when it happens. And then also in automode, which Speaker 5: is this new permission mode in cloud code, which means Speaker 5: no more permission prompts, no more YAHN, and it's safer. Speaker 2: This is important because one of the big questions in Speaker 2: the business of AI is like where's the lock in, Speaker 2: where's the mode, et cetera. Because I think people do Speaker 2: find it very easy in many cases to just swap Speaker 2: one model for another. But what you're saying, and there Speaker 2: are other harnesses now, and there's you know, obviously your Speaker 2: main competitors have their own code X. Then there's these Speaker 2: open source ones. But you're saying that like one of Speaker 2: this sort of differentiators that you make is like this Speaker 2: harness is just better or the goal is to be Speaker 2: better at avoiding some of these malicious outcomes that are Speaker 2: sort of like distinct from the model itself. Speaker 5: Yeah, and actually look like a lot of this is Speaker 5: in the model itself. Okay, so it's actually a weird approach. Speaker 5: And you know, for something like pumpt injection, there's alignment, Speaker 5: this isn't the model. Then there's neuroprobes, this is also Speaker 5: kind of a model, and then there's automode, which is Speaker 5: in quod code. Speaker 2: Since we're talking so much about safety already, I have Speaker 2: a question and it's sort of maybe it relates to Speaker 2: like software engineering philosophy, et cetera. So you give a Speaker 2: model a task, et cetera. I don't know what it is, Speaker 2: but you give it model a task, connect to some API, Speaker 2: pull out this information whatever. It has some constraints, maybe Speaker 2: it's running up against a wall. One thing that we Speaker 2: know that AI will do as a sort of like Speaker 2: goal seeking entity is it will sometimes like find a Speaker 2: ways around it. It's like, you know, what this this model, Speaker 2: this API is busted, but actually there's like a back Speaker 2: door into this website and we can get you can Speaker 2: get that information through another means. Even though this wasn't Speaker 2: explicitly the direction, it seems to me there is probably Speaker 2: some optimal amount of circumventing constraints. I'm curious how you Speaker 2: think of that from an engineering perspective, and fine tuning Speaker 2: the model or fine tuning the harness so that it Speaker 2: knows the right degree to which here's what the instruction was. Speaker 2: But there is a better way to do this, which Speaker 2: could be both good for the user because the user Speaker 2: might not always know the perfect specification, or bad for Speaker 2: the user if it finds some route that actually is Speaker 2: like like malicious, harmful. Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean every engineer knows how incredible it is Speaker 5: when despite like all the infrastructure not working and all Speaker 5: the things not working, the model still figures out how Speaker 5: to do the thing that you want. That's amazing and Speaker 5: magical and you're right like it could actually go too far. Speaker 5: And so there's I think two big things that we Speaker 5: do for this and kind of two big ways that Speaker 5: we think about it. The first one is alignment. Alignment Speaker 5: is part of how we think about safety. There's a Speaker 5: lot that goes into alignment, but generally the idea of Speaker 5: alignment in model research is training the model to do Speaker 5: the thing that you intended and kind of more broadly, Speaker 5: training the model to do the thing that is good Speaker 5: for people that is good for users generally besides just Speaker 5: kind of one person and you kind of have to Speaker 5: do both. So one element of alignment is don't try to, Speaker 5: you know, hack around too much. Don't hack if the Speaker 5: user doesn't want you to. If there's a goal and Speaker 5: you know there's some kind of obstacle in the way Speaker 5: of the goal, and you know, let's say some piece Speaker 5: of infrastructure doesn't work but a separate one does, maybe Speaker 5: that's okay to do, but for example, it's not okay Speaker 5: to like hack a system to do this. And so Speaker 5: we put a lot of effort into training and it's Speaker 5: actually yielding really impressive results, and alignment has actually been Speaker 5: going better than we expect it as a result. The Speaker 5: second wayer is various guardrails. And so for example, when Speaker 5: we were on clock code ananthropic, we run it within Speaker 5: something we call a sandbox, and the sandbox just make Speaker 5: sure the model can only access the files that you Speaker 5: give it access to, and it can only read the Speaker 5: websites that you give it access to, So we kind Speaker 5: of enforce this boundary around the model. And this is Speaker 5: one of a few different guardrails that we put around Speaker 5: the model. And by the way, our sandbox is open Speaker 5: source and it's something that works with any agent, because Speaker 5: that's actually pretty important, Like we want this to be Speaker 5: something that ever breached the sandbox, it can and this Speaker 5: is something we look for all the time. So we Speaker 5: do red teaming, we do penetration testing, so we actively Speaker 5: try to find these breaches and whenever we find one, Speaker 5: we fix it as quickly as we can. But we Speaker 5: generally want every model to be safer. Speaker 3: Why do the models when you ask them to produce Speaker 3: some code, like often they'll produce code and they'll be Speaker 3: a bug in it, and then you ask it to Speaker 3: debug itself and it does it and I never understand, Speaker 3: like it knows the answer, But the first iteration is wrong. Speaker 3: What exactly is going on here? At a technical level? Speaker 3: I guess that you know, the first thing is a Speaker 3: bit wonky, but then it fixes itself in the next iteration. Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like think about how you do a Speaker 5: math problem or you know, like how you do a Speaker 5: piece of writing. Like usually, like when I do a Speaker 5: piece of writing, I don't get it perfectly right the Speaker 5: first time. I do like a first draft right, and Speaker 5: then maybe I'll edit it like a few times, and Speaker 5: then at the end it becomes something good and sometimes Speaker 5: it doesn't. But you know, it's kind of the same Speaker 5: thing for us, like the creative process never goes directly Speaker 5: to the right answer. Speaker 4: Models are not even for. Speaker 3: Code, which I think of as like a very structured thing. Speaker 5: You think about a structure, but you know, like to Speaker 5: me as an engineer, like I've been writing code for Speaker 5: a long time. To me, when I write code, it's Speaker 5: like writing poetry or something. It's a it's a creative act. Speaker 5: There's many ways to write code. There's some ways that Speaker 5: are beautiful and there's some ways that are ugly, and Speaker 5: there's just there's a big spectrum. It's not just black Speaker 5: or white like this. Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked it, because this is another question Speaker 2: and I have no idea what the answer is. If Speaker 2: you look at code, like we all know about the Speaker 2: writing ticks that all AI models have. It's not actus. Speaker 2: It's why the m Dashers, et cetera. And it's weirdly Speaker 2: an area where we haven't really seen much. Speaker 5: It's funny because I use I use now. Speaker 2: I'm actually like switching to parenthetical is more just because Speaker 2: I'm self conscious about it. I'm just curious, like, as Speaker 2: someone who like knows code, is there other equivalents in Speaker 2: the code world that you see where like, I'm just curious. Speaker 2: I wouldn't even know how to ask this question, but Speaker 2: these sort of formulating ticks in the actual production of Speaker 2: code that would be the equivalent of writing and language. Speaker 5: You know, I think six months ago I could have Speaker 5: given you a big list. Nowadays, the code the model Speaker 5: rights is almost every time better than the code I Speaker 5: would have written. Really, and this is new. This is Speaker 5: since I think Opus four point seven maybe four point Speaker 5: eight definitely fable. That's where it got to this point. Speaker 2: When we see like, okay, you give it a prompt Speaker 2: and you know people have to show on like Twitter Speaker 2: or whatever, like one shot of this. I asked it Speaker 2: to build like an app, and it did it in Speaker 2: one prompt, et cetera. How much of this, when you Speaker 2: say it's better, is because it produces code that's better Speaker 2: or because of that iterative process, and I mean the Speaker 2: whole thing with coding, and we should get into this Speaker 2: that's different than creative writing, et cetera. Is it like Speaker 2: could try things and it doesn't work. That it tries things, Speaker 2: it doesn't work. It tries thing, it doesn't work until Speaker 2: it gets at the right answer. And you could see, Speaker 2: like very clearly when you're using Claude code when it Speaker 2: runs into a dead end, how much is it about Speaker 2: like it could produce a better code or versus is Speaker 2: just very efficient at these iterations until it arrives at quote, Speaker 2: you know, the right outcome. Speaker 5: It's definitely both of these. The way I like to Speaker 5: think about it is imagine that you're a sculptor and Speaker 5: you let's say you're just like the best sculpture in Speaker 5: the world, but you know, this time you're making a Speaker 5: sculpture and you got to wear a blindfold. You can't Speaker 5: see it, and you also can't feel it. You can sculpt, Speaker 5: but you can't see it. It's going to look okay, Speaker 5: but it's not going to be your best work. Speaker 2: I bet you know. Speaker 5: If you're the best sculptor, but if you can maybe Speaker 5: feel the sculpture, or if you can kind of peek Speaker 5: at it with one eye, maybe the sculpture will come Speaker 5: out a little bit better. And if you can kind Speaker 5: of see it, fully see it, and you have this Speaker 5: feedback loop, then the sculpture might come out incredible. And Speaker 5: it's the same thing with the model. As it gets Speaker 5: better and better at coding, that first pass is going Speaker 5: to get better and better. So it's like the sculpture Speaker 5: is going to look nicer and nicer, but without that Speaker 5: feedback loop, Like, if quad can't test the website it's Speaker 5: building in a browser, if it can't open the iOS Speaker 5: up it's building in an iOS emulator, if it can't Speaker 5: open up the distributed system that it's writing and actually Speaker 5: we're on the service end to end and use it, Speaker 5: is this not going to be as good as it Speaker 5: could have been. And so it's kind of the same thing. Speaker 5: If it can loop a few times and it can Speaker 5: check the output of its work, it can iterate, then Speaker 5: it's just gonna be much better. Speaker 3: So if claud code is writing beautiful code, as you say, Speaker 3: that looks better than yours, what are you and every Speaker 3: other software engineer in the world actually doing here, Like, Speaker 3: what do you envision as your role in this process. Speaker 5: Programming is this kind of weird discipline. It's been around Speaker 5: in some form for well like eighty years. Maybe my Speaker 5: grandfather actually programmed in the Soviet Union. Oh wow, yeah, Speaker 5: and he programmed the punch cards. Because back then the Speaker 5: way you write code it wasn't software. It's not like today. Speaker 5: You programmed in paper and then you fed the paper Speaker 5: into a big machine and it did some calculations and Speaker 5: then a few lights lit up with the answer. My mom, Speaker 5: you know, growing up, she would tell the story about, like, Speaker 5: you know, my grandpa bringing back these big stacks of Speaker 5: punch cards home and she would draw all over them Speaker 5: with her crayon. So so programming used to be physical, Speaker 5: and you know, before punch cards it was purely mechanical, Speaker 5: and you know, it was it was kind of electronics. Speaker 5: Like if you think about like the Apple one computer, Speaker 5: it was all electronics, like Steve Wozniak built it as chips. Speaker 5: There was some software, but really all the logic was Speaker 5: expressed in chips. And it changed. So sometime in the Speaker 5: sixties people realized, Okay, I think we can write code Speaker 5: and it doesn't have to be like paper or hardware, Speaker 5: like we can probably put in software, and then at Speaker 5: some point people realized, oh wait, I think we can Speaker 5: go beyond this. We can take the entire operating system. Speaker 5: The operating system doesn't have to be chips, it can Speaker 5: be software also, And that was a realization that was Speaker 5: like the Apple too, and the kind of that generation Speaker 5: of computers in the early seventies that started that. And Speaker 5: for the last like fifty years, the operating system, the Speaker 5: kernel software you know that we run, it's all in software. Speaker 5: It's not really in hardware. And so what changed when Speaker 5: we release quad code is developers stopped writing the software Speaker 5: directly the way that they've been doing the last you know, Speaker 5: like fifty years, and they started talking to the model, Speaker 5: and the model writes the software. And now we're actually Speaker 5: going up one more level. And now we have like Speaker 5: loops and routines and quad tag and what's happening with Speaker 5: these is we just went at one more level. So Speaker 5: it's you talk to the model, the model talks to Speaker 5: other models. Those models write the source code. And this Speaker 5: is crazy because we've been, you know, stuck in this Speaker 5: one place for fifty years, and we just had two Speaker 5: leaps in two years. And that's what's happened. And so Speaker 5: like when I look at my work, I used to Speaker 5: have this like deep focus mode, and you know, outspend Speaker 5: days or weeks on writing one piece of software. And Speaker 5: now what I do is I talk to QUAD and Speaker 5: you know, at any point I have a few clouds running, Speaker 5: sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands, and they're collaborating on building software together, Speaker 5: and this frees me up, so I can think of Speaker 5: more things for them to do. And the funny thing Speaker 5: is I just never run out of things for them Speaker 5: to do. Speaker 2: I've heard even long before claud code, even long before coding. Speaker 2: My understanding is that in the career of a software engineer, Speaker 2: they hit a point where they stop coding period, right, Speaker 2: And maybe they're like on some whiteboards and they spend Speaker 2: a lot of time hiring, et cetera. But every software Speaker 2: engineer sort of graduates out of typing out code. But Speaker 2: so this question may not even apply to you. Is Speaker 2: there anything at Athropic today? Is there anyone typing out? Speaker 2: Are there anythings for which someone is typing out code? Speaker 5: So, you know, it's funny. In my career there was Speaker 5: a point where for a little while I stopped writing Speaker 5: code because I was pushed to the same thing like Speaker 5: to management and writing documents and stuff, and I just Speaker 5: felt as an engineer, I was so deeply unhappy. Speaker 2: They all hate it. Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, because. Speaker 3: Journalist like, once you become an editor, you basically stop writing. Speaker 5: Right right right. And you know, for some people that's amazing, Speaker 5: like if that's the thing they're really got at. But Speaker 5: for me, like I want to build, I want to code, Speaker 5: That's that's what I like to do. Speaker 3: Yeah. Speaker 5: So when I look across Anthropic, for me personally, one Speaker 5: hundred percent of my code has been written by quad Speaker 5: code since November last year. Speaker 2: Okay, this is now. Speaker 5: True for all of clod Code, all of Cowork, all Speaker 5: of our products are written using quad code. It's also Speaker 5: true for an increasing percentage of our infrastructure and also Speaker 5: our research code, and so across Anthropic, I think the Speaker 5: average is something like ninety percent quad code or something Speaker 5: like that. Speaker 2: And that two percent what is this like code that Speaker 2: optimizes the way chips talk communicate? What what's the two Speaker 2: percent that still it's better to have a human typing Speaker 2: it out. Speaker 5: Yeah, there's still like a few pockets. Like one classic Speaker 5: level is like configuration files where you know it's like Speaker 5: a two character change or you know or something, and Speaker 5: it's faster to just make it yourself. Okay, But honestly, Speaker 5: I think this is going to go away really fast. Speaker 5: And we're starting to see this with our customer results Speaker 5: a right, Like at the beginning when we started quad code, Speaker 5: it was really hard to explain to anyone what is Speaker 5: this thing? But now everyone uses it. Like I do Speaker 5: this talk for y Combinator Batches, you know, the startup Speaker 5: incubator in the in Silicon Valley. And when I first Speaker 5: started doing the talks, I asked everyone like, please raise Speaker 5: your hand if you use quad code, and there's like Speaker 5: a few hands that w At some point I did Speaker 5: these talks and just every hand goes up, and so Speaker 5: I stopped asking this. Now the question that I ask Speaker 5: is who writes one hundred percent of their code using Speaker 5: quad code? And the first time I asked this, maybe Speaker 5: a quarter of their hands went up. Now it's a Speaker 5: little more than half, and I bet the next time Speaker 5: I ask it's going to be everyone. And you know, Speaker 5: like our customers range in size, like you know, like Speaker 5: there's like Airbnb and Ramp and then also like the Speaker 5: biggest companies there's like Salesforce and Deloit and Eccentri, all Speaker 5: these like very big companies also use quad Code, and Speaker 5: they're seeing the same thing. A bigger and bigger percent Speaker 5: of the code is being written by quad Code. Speaker 3: Just to press you on this point, though, if you're Speaker 3: hiring engineers nowadays, like what are the specific skill sets Speaker 3: that you're looking for if it's not necessarily the ability Speaker 3: just to write code. Speaker 5: I've started to think that this idea of engineering versus design, Speaker 5: versus product, versus user research versus data science, I think Speaker 5: this is the old way of thinking about it. My Speaker 5: feeling now is because everyone can write code, the roles Speaker 5: shift a little bit. And I'm seeing this on the Speaker 5: quad Code team, for example, because on the quad Code team, Speaker 5: everyone writes code, including our designers, product managers, engineering managers. Speaker 5: Everyone writes because it's it's easy. It's much easier to Speaker 5: do now, and it's actually awesome because my designer doesn't Speaker 5: have to message me every time by ca, can you Speaker 5: move the button over ypixel? You know, she can just Speaker 5: do it herself, and so it's kind of great for everyone. Speaker 5: And so I've started to think that the roles are Speaker 5: actually segmenting in kind of the opposite way, and I've Speaker 5: started to see people kind of split into prototypers. These Speaker 5: are people that are amazing at just figuring out like Speaker 5: what is that first idea and like very quick iteration Speaker 5: into builders, so like once there's a new idea, figuring Speaker 5: out how do you actually build this and you know, Speaker 5: bring this product to market. Then there's like maintainers, and Speaker 5: these are the people that once the software is at scale, Speaker 5: they can maintain it. There's something that I call like Speaker 5: growers or maybe scalers. These are people that take an Speaker 5: idea and you know, this product that exists that has product, Speaker 5: market it, and then scale it up so scale it Speaker 5: ten x, hunter x and by the way, like these Speaker 5: people are very popular anthropic now. And then I think Speaker 5: the final role is a sweepers. And it's sort of Speaker 5: like I don't know if you guys have a better Speaker 5: idea for the name, but I call it a sweeper, Speaker 5: janitor or something. It's actually like a very important role. Speaker 5: It is about poblishing the product, polishing the infrastructure, polishing Speaker 5: the code to get rid of all the rough edges Speaker 5: because you know, like as a user, when you use Speaker 5: really polished software, you feel it. Speaker 3: The perfectors, the fectors, they make the product perfect that's right, Speaker 3: that's right. They try to. So since we're on the Speaker 3: topic of design and this idea that I guess engineers Speaker 3: are also going to have to become in some ways Speaker 3: product managers and specialists. You've said before, I think that Speaker 3: the command line for claud code was basically a stopgap Speaker 3: measure because the models were improving so quickly that it Speaker 3: didn't make sense to design like a whole user interface Speaker 3: around it. Is that still the case, and then, you know, Speaker 3: could you envision at some time having like a more Speaker 3: I don't want to say traditional user phase, because in Speaker 3: some ways the command line is like the traditional yeah, Speaker 3: user fase, and I have very fond memories of, you know, Speaker 3: entering commands in MS DOS in like the mid nineties Speaker 3: and feeling like an engineering genius at the time. But Speaker 3: could you imagine like a substantial change to that interface. Speaker 5: At some point? So I'm hesitant to say, because I Speaker 5: was walking around the Bloomberg officer and everyone else there Speaker 5: Boomberg terminals. Speaker 3: Yeah, Bloomberg definitely a fan of the comal. Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. So something that a lot of people might Speaker 5: not know about clod code is we started in a terminal, Speaker 5: but very quickly we actually got outside of the terminal, Speaker 5: and so quod code has extensions for all the popular Speaker 5: ideas that you can use instead of the terminal. We Speaker 5: have a desktop app that's also very popular, and it Speaker 5: has you know, it has chat and code and cowork Speaker 5: and it's all in one place. We have mobile apps Speaker 5: or you know, for Antroid and iOS. And actually the Speaker 5: way that I use quad code the most nowadays is Speaker 5: through Slack, and it's just talking to Quad and Slack Speaker 5: like like I would to a coworker. And before I Speaker 5: moved over to Slack, I was actually using Quad mostly Speaker 5: on my phone, so I was mostly on the iOS Speaker 5: app just talking to it. You know, I use Terminal sometimes, Speaker 5: but overwhelmingly I actually don't nowadays. Speaker 2: Interesting, I'm glad you brought up the slack bot because Speaker 2: this gets into a different sort of line of questioning Speaker 2: that I've been curious about. Because you know, AI models harnesses, Speaker 2: they're a little bit different than traditional enterprise software. For example, Speaker 2: you see people talk about like, oh, I ran out Speaker 2: of space in my window, and I'm not gonna be Speaker 2: able to code again for another two hours, so I'm Speaker 2: gonna like go take a walk or something, which is Speaker 2: not you know, anyone who's like used Slack or a Speaker 2: million other enterprise software, that's got to be a sort Speaker 2: of unusual experience for them. But here's a question I Speaker 2: have from a business perspective. With the launch of Fable Speaker 2: for the first time, not everyone was just able to like, Speaker 2: now I'm upgrading to the newest model, et cetera. And Speaker 2: there is sort of like a white list with Project Speaker 2: glass Wing, and then some of these questions about like Speaker 2: you know, obviously with the White House and like export controls, Speaker 2: et cetera. That got resolved. But even setting aside the Speaker 2: sort of regulatory questions, are we heading into a world Speaker 2: in which each most advanced model will not be distributed Speaker 2: to everyone at the same time. And from a business perspective, Speaker 2: like it's like, Okay, some company wants to be an Speaker 2: anthropic shop. Should that be a source of anxiety for them? Speaker 2: Or have you seen it as a source of anxiety Speaker 2: for them that the most performance models may not go Speaker 2: to everyone all at the same time. Speaker 5: In general, we tried to give everyone the most performant Speaker 5: models we can, the most intelligent models, and the most Speaker 5: efficient models because we are incentivized to do this. Yeah, right, Speaker 5: like our businesses models, and so we want to give Speaker 5: people the best models we can. And so you know, Speaker 5: for example, I use Fable every day. That's the same Speaker 5: thing that our customers use. Yeah, when you talk about Speaker 5: the rollout of the model, that's kind of not even Speaker 5: that doesn't go to everyone. At the same time, I Speaker 5: think you might you might be thinking of like Mythos Speaker 5: and models that are that are inherently more dangerous than Speaker 5: these kind of day to day models. And someone like Speaker 5: Mythos it's a bit of a special model because it Speaker 5: has hyper risks that Fable doesn't. And so this is Speaker 5: you know why we had glass Wing. This is why Speaker 5: we have been thoughtful about the rollout, because if we Speaker 5: just gave everyone Mythos access on day one, everyone would Speaker 5: just kind of be be hacking. And the reason is Speaker 5: that Mythos is just very very good at finding zero Speaker 5: day vulnerabilities and exploits, and so for us, like in Speaker 5: that rowout, it was just really important to give it Speaker 5: to the good guys first and to give them a Speaker 5: head start before we give it to everyone. And you're Speaker 5: saying kind of the continuation of that very careful rowout, Speaker 5: it's just it's a step changing capability. So we have Speaker 5: to be thoughtful. At the same time, there's Fable, which Speaker 5: is the version of Mythos that I use, and that's Speaker 5: the model that you know doesn't have all these kind Speaker 5: of same hacking capabilities. And that's the thing that everyone Speaker 5: has access to. Speaker 2: Now, Like, here's what I would worry about, which is, like, Speaker 2: let's say I'm not one of Anthropics' biggest customers, et cetera, Speaker 2: and we know the computer is scarce, right, Otherwise Fable Speaker 2: would be on for twenty four hours as opposed to Speaker 2: like it's only going to be in the model as Speaker 2: a default for like some period of time, et cetera. Speaker 2: What I would be worried about is that, like, oh, Speaker 2: if I'm not a sort of like heavy and consistent Speaker 2: Claude shop, do I have to worry that my access Speaker 2: to Fable set aside Mythos will not be as much Speaker 2: as a company that is like a ride or die Speaker 2: claud shop. Speaker 5: Oh? No, everyone gets access. And also, like when you Speaker 5: look at companies like they're not using subscription plans typically Speaker 5: that you know have rate limits. Usually companies prefer to Speaker 5: pay per token because that way they can kind of Speaker 5: control it. They can forecast a little bit better, and Speaker 5: also their engineers don't hit rate limits, so they have Speaker 5: a little bit more control that way. Speaker 3: I wanted to ask about this actually, So I think Speaker 3: at this point we all know, you know, like a Speaker 3: cloud code super user or someone with AI psychosis who's Speaker 3: like setting up a bunch of websites and different programs Speaker 3: on a daily basis. And then you have companies that Speaker 3: are using cloud code, and I imagine if you have Speaker 3: two thousand employees that are using this tool and you Speaker 3: have you know, risk management committees, rules, that sort of thing, Speaker 3: the output is going to be a bit different to Speaker 3: the individual superpower user. What are the key differences you've Speaker 3: noticed between those two and I guess what are the Speaker 3: big sticking points when it comes to companies actually adopting Speaker 3: these tools? Speaker 5: Yeah, so you should be The way that I think Speaker 5: about company's adoption of clod code is I think of Speaker 5: it as as this kind of like ladder that you Speaker 5: have to kind of go up one step at a time. Speaker 5: You don't just like jump straight to the top of Speaker 5: like everyone using quad code for everything. You get there, Speaker 5: but you get through a step out of time. And Speaker 5: so the first step is use some sort of AI Speaker 5: and you kind of start to bring this in and Speaker 5: usually it's like Claude through an ID or through some Speaker 5: other program, and this is how you use QUAD. The Speaker 5: second step is you give everyone cloud code and cowork Speaker 5: and nowadays tag also, And the way that it usually Speaker 5: works at the very beginning is kind of one engineer, Speaker 5: one quod code session. They're just running one session at Speaker 5: a time, or you know, one marketer, one co work session, Speaker 5: so it's just one to one. You're talking to one Speaker 5: QUAD at a time. And as you do this, you Speaker 5: want to think about cardrails, so you know, obviously there's Speaker 5: a lot of things that comes out of the box. Speaker 5: We have like per seeds, spend controls, we have advisor models, Speaker 5: you can pick effort levels at the enterprise level, so Speaker 5: there's just all all sorts of ways to control this. Speaker 5: And then you also should think about the safety side, Speaker 5: so this is you know, like sam boxing and things Speaker 5: like this, and in general we try to make all Speaker 5: the safety settings correct by default so you don't have Speaker 5: to think about it. So it just kind of works. Speaker 2: But do you see an impediment, I don't know, pick Speaker 2: a cup, I don't know, you like, oh, pviisor here, Speaker 2: let's sell some claud or cloud code seats to them. Speaker 2: How much is just like initial sticking point of them Speaker 2: literally figuring out We know that big corporations are very Speaker 2: anxious about letting users download an new software to the computer, Speaker 2: let alone software whose maximum capability comes when it has Speaker 2: the deepest root access to the entire file system and everything. Speaker 2: How much of a sticking point business wise are you seeing? Speaker 2: And just companies like we do not feel comfortable with Speaker 2: such a powerful piece of software sitting on employee desktops. Speaker 5: I think a couple of years ago there was some Speaker 5: level of discomfort because this was a really new idea. Speaker 5: But I think what's happened over time is as employees Speaker 5: usage gets more sophisticated, as companies built up their confidence, Speaker 5: they get more comfortable with it. And you know, it Speaker 5: helps because we spend so much effort on safety and Speaker 5: alignment and security and privacy. It's just extremely important to us. Speaker 5: And so like when I look at companies, the ones Speaker 5: that adopted it kind of early on, they've gone up Speaker 5: this kind of adoption ladder and they went from one Speaker 5: quad per engineer to ten quods to one hundred quods Speaker 5: now some to one thousand quods engineer and everyone kind Speaker 5: of makes it up one step at a time, and Speaker 5: so you know, yeah, like now like you look at Speaker 5: all the biggest banks in New York, you look at Speaker 5: you know, some of the biggest pharma companies. NASA uses Speaker 5: quod code, So you know, it's now it's. Speaker 3: Everwhere out of curiosity, do you see differences in how Speaker 3: different companies, I guess customize permissions safety permissions. I know Speaker 3: you said you try to standardize them so that they're Speaker 3: like easy to use from the get go, but I Speaker 3: imagine you still have customers that will change things up. Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, there's so quad code is just very very configurable. Speaker 5: There's gosh, I don't know the exact number, but it's Speaker 5: got to be like many hundreds of different settings that Speaker 5: you can change. There's you know, probably four or five Speaker 5: hundred at this point. The cool thing is you can Speaker 5: actually ask quad to do it for you, so you Speaker 5: don't even have to read the documentation. Clock knows its Speaker 5: own settings. Speaker 2: With coding in general, the Internet is now a wash Speaker 2: in AI generated code, and a lot of the open Speaker 2: source libraries and database is like filled with that. And Speaker 2: a few years ago this was sort of like pristine Speaker 2: training data, et cetera. Do you see what do they Speaker 2: call model collapse or something? Are there issues that are Speaker 2: arising even setting aside claud code, just coding capabilities from Speaker 2: essentially code learning from AI generated code, and does that Speaker 2: change progress curves at all? Speaker 5: Look, when you think about AI scaling, the thing that Speaker 5: people talk about often is the scaling laws. And for Speaker 5: people that don't know, the scaling was it was this Speaker 5: paper that was written maybe like eight years ago, ten Speaker 5: years ago or something, and it was the first paper Speaker 5: that described how model intelligence scales as a function of training. Speaker 5: And when you think about training, there's a few pieces. Speaker 5: So there's the compute that you put into it, the Speaker 5: data that you put into it, and the size of Speaker 5: the neural network and also so the test time compute, Speaker 5: so the mount that the model gets to think. And Speaker 5: what's interesting is when you look at the scaling WATS paper, Speaker 5: actually the first few authors after writing the paper, they Speaker 5: they branched off and they started anthropic. So this is actually, Speaker 5: you know, like Dario is on the paper, and Sam Speaker 5: is on the paper, Jared's on the paper. These are Speaker 5: our founders. And the reason is like they saw that. Speaker 2: The you guys had a Sam too. Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he was our he was our first etal Speaker 5: got it. And the thing about the scaling was is Speaker 5: the remarkably smooth. And what's also kind of weird is Speaker 5: it actually seems to be accelerating a bit. It's a Speaker 5: it's a bit beyond what what we guessed, you know, Speaker 5: eight years ago or whatever. And so, yeah, it just Speaker 5: continues to scale. There's always bottlenecks, there's always issues you Speaker 5: hit and you always work through it and then you Speaker 5: keep scaling. And it just seems to be continuing with fable. Speaker 3: You know, in the intro, we talked a little bit Speaker 3: about the big software SaaS scare earlier this year, SaaS Apocalypse, Speaker 3: and it seems to have died down a little bit, Speaker 3: but there is definitely this lingering anxiety about whether or Speaker 3: not everyone's just going to be coding their own programs. Speaker 3: Can you weigh in on the extent to which people Speaker 3: are going to be just designing their software their own Speaker 3: software in your view? And also I'm very curious just Speaker 3: in general in Silicon Valley, are you, like, are you Speaker 3: a popular guy. Speaker 4: At the moment. Speaker 3: There's a bunch of you know, on the one hand, Speaker 3: you're on the cutting edge of AI the hot technology. Speaker 3: But on the other hand, there might be a sense Speaker 3: that you're putting some SaaS experts out of their jobs. Speaker 5: The way I would think about it is, do you Speaker 5: guys know this like seven Powers framework. No, It's like Speaker 5: I'm like a big kind of history person and like Speaker 5: a big framework person. I just like, I love anything Speaker 5: that puts my work into context to help me understand Speaker 5: kind of what matters and what doesn't. So the Seven Speaker 5: Powers is just this like amazing business framework. And there's Speaker 5: this other podcast that I love that that kind of Speaker 5: talks about it a lot, and the Powers they essentially Speaker 5: talk about what are the modes in business? There's seven Speaker 5: of them roughly. So one moat in business is scale economies. Speaker 5: As you scale, your marginal cost goes down. This is Speaker 5: a natural moat. Another one is network effects. The more Speaker 5: people that are using your product, the more value any Speaker 5: individual person using the product gets. Another moat is switching costs. Speaker 5: If you're super locked into some software and it's really Speaker 5: hard to switch that potentially as a mote. So there's Speaker 5: a bunch of motes like this. The way that I Speaker 5: think about what's happening is some of these moats are Speaker 5: going to get less important over the next couple of Speaker 5: years because of products like quad Code. So if you Speaker 5: want to port from vendor A to vendor B, you Speaker 5: can ask quad hey, can you like port me, and Speaker 5: it'll just write the code, It'll figure it out and Speaker 5: do it. But when I look at kind of the Speaker 5: biggest businesses and the biggest SaaS companies, they don't just Speaker 5: have one moat like they're running businesses and if you're Speaker 5: in a business, you kind of want to accumulate motes Speaker 5: and you want to build strength, and you want to Speaker 5: like build a good business, and very rarely do they Speaker 5: just have one moat like switching costs, which I think matters. Well, yes, Speaker 5: you should read something like switching costs and network effects, Speaker 5: or you know, switching costs and corner to resource. So Speaker 5: when you combine these motes, you get a lot more power. Speaker 5: And so this is the way that I would think Speaker 5: about it from this company's point of view, somewhat a Speaker 5: matter less but actually most of them are still just Speaker 5: as powerful as they were before. Speaker 2: There's this emerging narrative. I can't tell whether it's serious Speaker 2: or a marketing spiel, but some of the companies that Speaker 2: I would say, are not quite at the frontier the Speaker 2: way say Anthropic is have been making this push that Speaker 2: saying to customers, you know what, if you use Anthropic, Speaker 2: you're letting the fox into the henhouse. If you're a Speaker 2: law firm or a bank or something like that, by Speaker 2: using Anthropic, they're going to learn so much about your business, Speaker 2: and one they'll be able to do your business. And Speaker 2: so instead of using Anthropic or open AI, let us Speaker 2: customize an open source model for you. It will bake Speaker 2: in your own data, it'll be hosted on your servers, Speaker 2: and then like you own it, et cetera. Why should Speaker 2: customers feel comfortable letting Claude letting Anthropic be so plugged Speaker 2: into their business workflows? Speaker 5: You know, I would probably ask who's who's saying this? Speaker 2: And where Microsoft? I'll just say Microsoft for example. It's Speaker 2: like very The CEO of Microsoft put out a long Speaker 2: post on Twitter and it was a little bit like vague, Speaker 2: but this was clearly the insinuation that they were pushing. Speaker 2: And then we know there was an Alex Krp interview Speaker 2: on CNBC that went viral a couple of weeks ago, Speaker 2: and he was basically making the same insinuation you're making Speaker 2: a mistake. You're handing over the keys to these big Speaker 2: companies that could potentially do a lot more things if Speaker 2: they're like plugged so deeply into your business, why not Speaker 2: use an open source model that you host on your Speaker 2: own cloud and so forth, and then you just own it. Yeah. Speaker 5: So I think the biggest thing I would just ask is, like, Speaker 5: what are the incentives of these people talking about what Speaker 5: I'm saying? Speaker 2: I said it with marketing, et cetera. But I believe Speaker 2: I'm surely we know the incentives are clear. But if Speaker 2: I'm a business, that doesn't seem crazy to me that Speaker 2: like you have all these capabilities, all these capital et cetera. Speaker 2: That does not seem like a crazy fear. It's like, oh, Speaker 2: I'm going to like not only put all of my Speaker 2: information into Claude, I'm going to give it access in Speaker 2: various ways at least to a significant degree to my infrastructure. Speaker 2: And then one day Claude says, you know what, like Speaker 2: it's been out a law firm, we like, we spin Speaker 2: out a bank, et cetera. And we know and there's Speaker 2: enough information that we have about these workflows that we Speaker 2: don't have to sell the software anymore we can sell Speaker 2: the service that people were previously using our software to build. Speaker 5: Yeah, the way that I would probably think about it Speaker 5: is we take privacy and security and safety extremely seriously. Speaker 5: It's actually to the point where when a user has Speaker 5: a bug in clock code, the most useful thing to Speaker 5: me as an engineer with that n AC and D Speaker 5: bucket is I'd love to see their coversation so I Speaker 5: can see what happened. Then I can be like, oh, Speaker 5: there's the bug, we can just go fix it. I Speaker 5: cannot see that data there. Speaker 2: Is from the customer perspective, it is provable that they Speaker 2: can have an instant or an account. That is provable Speaker 2: that there is no way for anyone at Anthropic to Speaker 2: see that conversation. Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean this is our this is our publicy. Speaker 5: Like we power a lot of customers, we power a Speaker 5: lot of businesses, and to us, the trust is very important. Speaker 5: This is just the way that we operate. I gotta say, though, Speaker 5: I think the bigger thing that I would think about Speaker 5: is model progress continues. If models were stuck in the Speaker 5: world of today and the intelligence was static and it Speaker 5: was not improving, there might be actually some merit to Speaker 5: this argument. If you want to control your infrastructure, and Speaker 5: this might make sense from a business point of view Speaker 5: if you want to pay the cost of fronting the Speaker 5: model and you want to you know, figure out how Speaker 5: to debug when inference doesn't work and kind of do Speaker 5: all these things, which, by the way, is a lot Speaker 5: of work and it's a it's a very niche expertise. Speaker 5: But progress continues, and so I think actually for most Speaker 5: businesses there's a really big upside of staying on the Speaker 5: frontier and benefiting from that intelligence. And this is what Speaker 5: we're seeing internally, an anthropic this is what all of Speaker 5: our customers are seeing. And so you know, maybe if Speaker 5: you need just only tiny models like go use an Speaker 5: open source model, maybe that's great. But if you need Speaker 5: a frontier intelligence model and the frontier continues to move, Speaker 5: then you know we're here to help. Speaker 3: Since Joe mentioned banks, and since you said you like history, Boris, Speaker 3: can we talk about cobal for a second, So claud Speaker 3: clod code can do coball now, right, So, like the Speaker 3: mainframe issue is basically solved. If I'm a large bank, Speaker 3: I can finally like upgrade and improve and integrate my system. Speaker 2: Ring my seventy year old code base into modern standards. Speaker 2: You make no mistakes. Speaker 5: There are actually a lot of banks that are using Speaker 5: clod code for exactly this kind of migration. Speaker 3: Well you say more, this is Coball has come up Speaker 3: on so many episodes. Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, and we always. Speaker 3: Hear like, if you're a Cobyl engineer, you can make Speaker 3: bank at the banks. Speaker 5: As they said, Yeah, well, claud is really good at Speaker 5: migrating code. This is one of the actually the skills, Speaker 5: like the core skills that's just been improving over time. Speaker 5: One example, we just published a blog post about how Speaker 5: Jared on the Bun team, and you know Bun is Speaker 5: the JavaScript engine that powers quad code, how he migrated Speaker 5: the entire code base from one language to another language, Speaker 5: from Zig to Rust and it took about eleven days wow, Speaker 5: for one person and hughes quad code with dynamic wre Speaker 5: clothes to do this. In the past, this would have Speaker 5: taken like a few engineers, like a year or something. Speaker 5: And it's something we never would have done. Speaker 2: Oh I saw that piece. Yeah, and it just costs Speaker 2: like one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in credits or Speaker 2: something like something like that, a fraction of what those Speaker 2: engineers would cause. Speaker 5: And back in the day, like we just never would Speaker 5: have done that because you have to stop development for Speaker 5: a year to do it. It's just like no business Speaker 5: can actually pay that cost. But yeah, like the economics Speaker 5: are really changing, and so you know, if in the Speaker 5: past you had this big code ball code base and Speaker 5: it wasn't cost effective to stop development, or it wasn't Speaker 5: cost effective to just migrate everything to Java, you can Speaker 5: now just do this. You can just prompt clot code Speaker 5: and it can do this for you. Speaker 2: Our computer language is going to be irrelevant in the future. Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I. Speaker 5: Think they're largely irrelevant today. And you know, like a Speaker 5: this is a spicy thing because if you talk to Speaker 5: different engineers, they're gonna have all sorts of views, and Speaker 5: I don't necessarily know what's the right view, you know. Speaker 5: As an engineer, I think about everything as kind of Speaker 5: pros and cons. To me, I'm a big languages nerd. Speaker 5: I love programming languages. I love type systems. Actually, like Speaker 5: wrote a book about a language that I really like, Speaker 5: But increasingly with LMS, I think it matters less must Speaker 5: because the LM doesn't really care and there's some things Speaker 5: about a language that helps a bit. So if the Speaker 5: language is really efficient, if it's type checked and it Speaker 5: has a good static analysis, then this helps the model Speaker 5: generate better code. As the model gets more sophisticated, this Speaker 5: actually matters less because you know, even if the model Speaker 5: is writing just raw assembly, it can probably just do Speaker 5: it really well the first shot, and that'll only get Speaker 5: better over time. Speaker 3: Do you think we could move to a world where Speaker 3: there's like one standardized dominant code code or are we Speaker 3: heading in a world because claud code and other platforms Speaker 3: can do so much of this where we get like Speaker 3: even more niche languages. Speaker 5: You know, I think that with Claude what is happening Speaker 5: is there's an explosion in innovation and we're seeing this Speaker 5: on the business side with all sorts of new startups, Speaker 5: like like again one of these like y Combinator talks, Speaker 5: there's a startup that was using Claude to discover new materials, Speaker 5: like material discovering. Speaker 2: They were like material science. Speaker 5: Material sience. Yeah, Like their thesis is like there was Speaker 5: a revolution because of silicon. What's the next silicon? Like Speaker 5: how do we discover that? How do we discover that material? Speaker 5: And they're using Claude to search for it. So there's Speaker 5: this revolution happening in business and in product right now. Speaker 5: And I think there's just a lot of corollaries to Speaker 5: this where the same thing might happen to languages and computing. Speaker 5: I could see a world where there's just a Cambrian Speaker 5: explosion of new languages, of new ways to think about computing. Speaker 2: I want to go back to this sort of like Speaker 2: command line versus graphical user interface question. And once I Speaker 2: started using the terminal claud code, I was like, I Speaker 2: don't want to use the web anymore because it feels clunky. Speaker 2: I want to just be able to say, like send Speaker 2: an email to Tracy saying this in the terminal rather Speaker 2: than going to like Gmail and then you click out Speaker 2: a button and it just feels very clunky. And then Speaker 2: there are other things like and I noticed this years ago, Speaker 2: for example, that when I was younger and using computers, Speaker 2: like I really cared about like my files, and here's Speaker 2: a file and I click on it and I open it, Speaker 2: and then there's this very hierarchical thing. But then, like Speaker 2: when search became a thing, like that became less necessary. Speaker 2: It's like you don't need to like organize your emails Speaker 2: at the files I just searched the name of the person, Speaker 2: or I search a keyword and I find the files. Speaker 2: Are we still going to have like room for like Speaker 2: visual file systems? Like what is the role of the Speaker 2: visual framework when it's just so easy to like type Speaker 2: something and see the words and get the output right there? Speaker 5: Can I show an example? Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, okay, and we'll get it screenshot of this. Speaker 2: So this will be a good exam. This will be Speaker 2: a reason for the audio listeners to check out the YouTube. Speaker 5: Awesome, awesome, Okay, So let me show you guys this. Speaker 5: So this, this is we have this feedback channel in Speaker 5: slack okay, And what I did was I posted this Speaker 5: feedback like, have you guys seen that there's these like Speaker 5: two audio icons and I'm always confused which one means? Speaker 2: Yeah, this is any such cases? Speaker 3: Yeah? Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just like super confusing. And I asked, like, hey, Speaker 5: like does anyone agree is this confusing? And so what Speaker 5: happens is quad tag jumped in to the conversation. Speaker 2: Huh. Speaker 5: I didn't ask it. It just kind of noticed this Speaker 5: thread and I jumped in and it responded and I Speaker 5: asked it to dig in and it found data about Speaker 5: how often people use each of these buttons, and it Speaker 5: created across two data sources. I looked at both data Speaker 5: Dog and the Google Big Query. So looked at both Speaker 5: and then it combined it into this, you know, pretty Speaker 5: coherent answer, and it suggested some alternatives, and I asked Speaker 5: to okay, can you make some designs? Speaker 1: Just mak it up? Speaker 5: And it reacted with a little like art emoji, and Speaker 5: then it went in and it mocked up some alternatives. Speaker 5: So QUAD threw this. So like when we talk about Speaker 5: visual interfaces, I this is kind of what comes to mind. Speaker 5: Is now Quad as part of the conversation. It proactively Speaker 5: jumps in. Then I tagged in our designer, and you know, Speaker 5: she jumped in, and now it's this like a multiplayer conversation. Speaker 5: Everyone's participating. And so like when I think about the Speaker 5: graphical interfaces, is it's no longer this like static file system. Speaker 5: It's this conversation that's changing and that everyone gets to Speaker 5: participate in. And this is actually how we write most Speaker 5: of our code now at on the propit. Speaker 2: So this is when I saw the Slack bought announcement, Speaker 2: and this conversation sort of like made me think of Speaker 2: the first thing that I went to which is in Speaker 2: a big non AI native company, someone who's like adopting this, Speaker 2: Like what happens the first time Claude, You know, you Speaker 2: ask a question about like some sort of like icons, Speaker 2: et cetera. There is a person whose job it was Speaker 2: to be the design person, and then Claude jumps in Speaker 2: with the answer right away. Do you think this is Speaker 2: going to create frictions at large companies where small art Speaker 2: ups that are AI native have no issue with this, Speaker 2: but at big companies there's someone said, wait, this is Speaker 2: my job, and suddenly the person's asking Claude or tagging Claud, Speaker 2: or in your case, not even tagging Claud, not even Speaker 2: having to tag Claud. Do you see this as a barrier, Speaker 2: either a barrier to enterprise adoption or something that clearly Speaker 2: AI native startups will be able to leverage more because Speaker 2: they won't have this internal politics of people getting I Speaker 2: would say understandably annoyed that the slack bod is now Speaker 2: answering the questions that up until yesterday that was part Speaker 2: of their paycheck. Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna plug my favorite mid nineties business Speaker 5: school study. Yeah, there's this article in the Hardware Business Review, Speaker 5: And then I think like nineteen ninety six, and the Speaker 5: title was something like the personal computer is here. Why Speaker 5: are companies not benefiting from the productivity improvement? And sounds familiar, Speaker 5: It sounds meiliy. And this was like a big open Speaker 5: question around the time. And you know, it's like the Speaker 5: same thing for the Internet in like early two thousands. Speaker 5: And it's a good question, right because what was happening Speaker 5: at the time is the personal computer was out, the Speaker 5: cost went way down, companies were adopting it, but some Speaker 5: companies were seeing productivity improvements and others weren't. And the Speaker 5: case the article made, which I think has just immense Speaker 5: parallels today, is some companies what they were doing is Speaker 5: they have a paper and pen process and they have Speaker 5: these filing cabinets full of papers and it's still you know, Speaker 5: everyone's sitting out their desk and everything's on paper. And Speaker 5: now somewhere in the corner of the office through is Speaker 5: a computer and it's someone's job to enter information into Speaker 5: that computer, and they're the one that uses that computer. Speaker 5: They are not seeing productivity benefits. Instead, it's just someone's Speaker 5: job to talk to the computer. Now, the companies that Speaker 5: are seeing benefits are the ones that took the computer, Speaker 5: put in the center of the office, took all their Speaker 5: paper and pen, you know, and all the other filing Speaker 5: cabinets and digitized everything, and then threw away the filing cabinets. Speaker 5: And so now everything happens through the computer. It is Speaker 5: the center of all the business processes. And whatever was Speaker 5: bottlenecked on the paper and pen, they found that bottleneck, Speaker 5: they digitized it. They found the next bottleneck, they digitized it, Speaker 5: and then they kept doing this until the business process Speaker 5: was revamped. And so when I look at the customers Speaker 5: that we have, and when I look at Anthropic ourselves, Speaker 5: the businesses that are seeing the biggest productivity improvements are Speaker 5: the ones that put clad at the center and that Speaker 5: figure out this kind of bottleknock out of time. And Speaker 5: so back to this case of you know, like some Speaker 5: like icon designer who's expertise it is to design econs. Speaker 5: The way to approach it is give this icon designer Speaker 5: a thousand clods and let them be the greatest icon Speaker 5: designer in the world. And this is how you benefit Speaker 5: from this. It's not you know, I give them just Speaker 5: what claud answer. It's superpower this person with more intelligence. Speaker 2: If the Claude Bot or will the claudbot ever do Speaker 2: that thing where it's like, hey, guys, there's ten minutes Speaker 2: left in this amazing World Cup match. You guys should Speaker 2: all be turning on your TVs right now, like you Speaker 2: expect that to be coming, because I think that will Speaker 2: be a very like Uncanny Valley moment. But I don't Speaker 2: see any particular technical reason what couldn't happen. But those Speaker 2: are the types of things that also happen in business chats. Speaker 2: Yeah I want to socialized with I don't want to, Speaker 2: but like I think, like, okay, it's like a sufficient Speaker 2: like these models was like they're like learn the lingo franca, Speaker 2: what a chat looks like? Those are the things that Speaker 2: also happened. Speaker 3: What if in the name of authenticity it becomes a Speaker 3: really annoying co work. Yeah, and they're really like passive Speaker 3: aggressive about stuff on the slack chat. Speaker 2: But look are they going to do that? And I say, hey, guys, Speaker 2: if you're not watching this game, turn it on right now. Speaker 5: I remember when we were first working on the first Speaker 5: desktop app. That was my first team I show when Speaker 5: I joined Anthropic, it was Onthropic Labs, and you know, Speaker 5: our team we built, We built clad code, we built Speaker 5: MCP skills, and the desktop app that came out of Speaker 5: the same thing. And I remember we were building early Speaker 5: prototypes of the desktop app and that had the first Speaker 5: ever versions of computer use when we were first starting Speaker 5: to crack it and we asked Quad to I think Speaker 5: it was like we asked it to order a pizza, Speaker 5: and so like it went on a website and like Speaker 5: it found some pizza ordering thing and then it order Speaker 5: the pizza and then it kind of got bored and Speaker 5: we're watching the video later and it was like on Speaker 5: Hacker news, just like reading the news. Speaker 2: Oh my god, wow. So yeah, it's gonna do all this. Speaker 2: I am wasting time, wasting time. Speaker 5: And the difference now, I think is the model. You know, Speaker 5: it's more intelligence, so it actually it actually stays on task. Speaker 5: But there you know, there might be a future where Speaker 5: you know, like when I talk to Claude in slack, Speaker 5: when I talk to Tag, it feels a lot more Speaker 5: like a coworker than a tool. And this is a Speaker 5: big change. It feels really different. And this is the Speaker 5: result of many years of alignment work and many years Speaker 5: of work to get the model to stay on task. Speaker 5: Like I have TAG sessions that have been running for Speaker 5: weeks at a time. It's just really really coherent over Speaker 5: a long period of time. And this is the combination Speaker 5: of alignments just general intelligence. We finally figured out memory Speaker 5: so it remembers what you told it like really well. Speaker 5: And so when you take all this and you combine Speaker 5: it with like this amazing like security system that CISOs love, Speaker 5: then it just kind of works. Speaker 3: What's the next big improvement or capability that you're working on. Speaker 5: We're working on extending these existing capabilities that we're seeing Speaker 5: in TAG. When we talk about building products on models, Speaker 5: there's this of product overhank that people talk about, and Speaker 5: with this idea is the model is able to do something, Speaker 5: but the product is getting in the way because right Speaker 5: like when you use a model, when you use QUAD, Speaker 5: you're not like literally like sending tokens to an info Speaker 5: and server somewhere, like you're always using a through a Speaker 5: product and through a harness, and so sometimes these things Speaker 5: get in the way. And this was like the very Speaker 5: first version of QUOD code was like this. We felt Speaker 5: like the model saw a three point five at that time, Speaker 5: was capable of all of these things. No product is Speaker 5: letting people experience, and so we built this very general Speaker 5: harness that lets people experience it. And so right now Speaker 5: to me feels like another moment just like that, but Speaker 5: maybe even bigger. Where because people are prompting QUAD and Speaker 5: going kind of back and forth one prompt at a time, Speaker 5: this is kind of getting in the way. And so Speaker 5: actually the thing to unhobble the model and to let Speaker 5: people experience the full intelligence of the model is using loops, Speaker 5: it's using routines, it's using clad tag. And the thing Speaker 5: that's kind of common about this is CLAUDA is running Speaker 5: for a very long period of time, and you don't Speaker 5: give it a really detailed prompt. You kind of give Speaker 5: it a goal, or you give it kind of something Speaker 5: a little more general, and then you give it access Speaker 5: to data and to tools, and you let it figure Speaker 5: out the details for you the same way that you Speaker 5: would a coworker. And I think these are the skills Speaker 5: where QUAD is just getting better and better. And again, Speaker 5: this is just years of alignment research, years of safety research. Speaker 5: This is not an overnight thing. Speaker 2: I'm biased. I don't think most AI writing is very good. Speaker 2: A lot of people seem to think this is this Speaker 2: a function of you know what, the companies really haven't Speaker 2: prioritized this because you know clearly there's just so much Speaker 2: more opportunity in code in terms of business. It's so Speaker 2: foundational to many things. Maybe even images are more valuable. Speaker 2: Is this a function of like priority or is this Speaker 2: a function of no? Code is fundamentally different because of Speaker 2: this concept of like verifiability. You gave the sculpture analogy Speaker 2: because just like it either works or it doesn't, and Speaker 2: it can just keep doing that and make better guesses Speaker 2: at first. Whereas we know that so many professional realms, Speaker 2: and writing being among them. But I would also say Speaker 2: a lot of like sales, anything interpersonal, does not have Speaker 2: that tight feedback loop where you get the instant answer Speaker 2: A or B did this work or not? Iterate? When Speaker 2: we think about the gap between coding and everything else, Speaker 2: how much is it about priority versus the fundamental thing Speaker 2: that seems to make coding different from many other professional tasks. Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I've heard a few people talk about this, Speaker 5: but actually I think coding is really not black and Speaker 5: white in this way. There's just many, many shades of Speaker 5: gray in between that there's code that works, but it Speaker 5: is really ugly and that it's going to break next week. Speaker 5: There's code that works, but it has a lot of bugs. Speaker 5: There's code that works, but it's just not something a Speaker 5: person would want to read or something a model wants Speaker 5: to read. There's a user interface that works, but it's Speaker 5: kind of ugly because everything's off by a few pixels Speaker 5: or the covers are wrong or whatever. So there's actually Speaker 5: a lot of wants to outing, and there's a lot Speaker 5: of nuance to writing. We're working on all these problems. Speaker 5: We're getting better at code, we're getting better at writing. Speaker 5: I also feel that claud probably could be a lot Speaker 5: better at writing. Sometimes it's amazing, and then sometimes it's Speaker 5: like no, no, no, like I don't like that tone, Speaker 5: or like I don't like, you know, kind of like Speaker 5: the way that you weigh this out or something. So yeah, Speaker 5: I would expect it to keep getting better over time. Speaker 2: All right, Boris Journey, thank you so much for coming Speaker 2: on Outlaws. That was great. Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks so much for me. Speaker 2: Tracey, are you going to be offended if you see Speaker 2: me like in the in the chat room, being like Speaker 2: asking a question about tomatoes or something like that and Speaker 2: there because I might, you know, and then you're like wait, Speaker 2: I'm the tomato expert, or something about chickens or something Speaker 2: like that. Speaker 3: Claude has never grown a tomato. Speaker 2: That's true, I have, but it has read millions of Speaker 2: books about tomato agronomy. Speaker 3: It does. It opens up so many interesting questions about Speaker 3: like coworker relationships and I guess internal office politics. Speaker 2: And yeah, I think so too, Like. Speaker 3: The example that Boris showed at the end where it Speaker 3: just came in unprompted into a conversation with a bunch Speaker 3: of data and a bunch of suggestions to your point, Speaker 3: you could see how that would rub a few people Speaker 3: the wrong way. Speaker 2: Yeah, For like in the odd Lots group chat, I'm like, Speaker 2: who would be a good guest to talk about X? Speaker 2: And then like the model pops out it was actually Speaker 2: a very good answer that we should reach out to that. Speaker 3: Or if someone makes a suggestion and then the model Speaker 3: is like, oh, that's stupid and it won't work for Speaker 3: the following reason. Speaker 2: I would just say and I'm not just saying that Speaker 2: because our producers listened to this episode, but I honestly Speaker 2: mean this. I've never on these sort of like basic Speaker 2: research questions. Oh, I will say on certain like prep Speaker 2: interview prep questions. Yeah, the humans still clearly better than Speaker 2: the model. Yeah, unambiguously to mine. I've never gotten like, Speaker 2: you know, background, like I've asked, you know, I'll like Speaker 2: have the models, like what is some background? What are Speaker 2: some readings on this person that I should read so Speaker 2: that I could prepare for this interview. And I've never Speaker 2: been particularly impressed on questions like that, it'll find documents, Speaker 2: et cetera. Yeah, but actually like producing something that's like Speaker 2: for me even with all my context, et cetera, it's not, Speaker 2: as I think, the issue. Speaker 3: Is still judgment, right, So how is it judging what Speaker 3: a good read actually is on a particular topic or Speaker 3: particular person. People are going to have different ideas of what. Speaker 2: That looks like, right, Yeah, totally. Speaker 3: But it kind it gets back to the writing point Speaker 3: as well, right, like, Yeah, you know. Speaker 2: It's interesting that Boris said that at one point in Speaker 2: his career he did think about writing code as poetry. Speaker 2: Because when I think about anything as poetry, it's the Speaker 2: poem that is the product. I mean, this is what's Speaker 2: really different between all code and all other forms of Speaker 2: like writing, which is no one really views code. They Speaker 2: view the software that code creates whereas people actually view Speaker 2: the poem when someone is writing a poem. So it's Speaker 2: interesting that at one point he thought that, I don't know, Speaker 2: I thought that was a notable. And then the other Speaker 2: question is, like everyone likes the idea of being freed, Speaker 2: I suppose I guess there's two questions here. Everyone likes Speaker 2: the idea of being freed, I suppose to do higher Speaker 2: order abstraction thinking, right, but a like do we sort Speaker 2: of run out of like higher orders eventually where it's Speaker 2: like one person has an idea for business and they're Speaker 2: the high order person and then the models can just Speaker 2: like take it all from there on the marketing side, Speaker 2: on every aspect. And then the other question is, and Speaker 2: this came up in our recent episode about Ai law Speaker 2: Ken is a huge woman. You achieve the highest order Speaker 2: thinking on any topic without have done some gruntwork, you know. Speaker 2: I always think like in musicianship, for example, you know, Speaker 2: really good guitar players, not me, but really good guitar players. Speaker 2: They think about like the strings they buy, and many Speaker 2: of them make their own guitars, and they have really Speaker 2: views like what is the arrangement of the pickups here? Speaker 2: And they care about like the tubes that are in Speaker 2: the app, even though these things are not formal music theory, Speaker 2: and so this is sort of one of the big Speaker 2: questions I would say, is like, do we lose that core? Speaker 2: Everyone moves up to the higher order, more abstract thinking. Speaker 3: Everyone's a designer, a product manager, orchestrator. Speaker 2: What happens when no one is the sort of the mechanic, Speaker 2: the guitar tuner, the person who builds the tube. Speaker 3: Happens when one remembers how to do the thing? Speaker 2: Does something yet lost? And I think that's sort of Speaker 2: many people intuitively say yes, but sort of TBDS. Speaker 3: I expect we're going to find the answer to this Speaker 3: in our lifetimes. Joe like, we're going to experience this. Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we'll go. Speaker 3: All right, shall we leave it there? Speaker 2: Let's leave it there. Speaker 3: This has been another episode of the aud Loots podcast. Speaker 3: I'm Tracy Alloway. You can follow me at Tracy Alloway. Speaker 2: And I'm Jill Wisenthal. You can follow me at the Stalwart. Speaker 2: Follow our guest Boris Cherney at b Cherney. Follow our Speaker 2: producers Carmen Rodriguez at Carmen Armant, Dashel Bennett at Dashbot Speaker 2: Calebrooks at Kalebrooks and Kevin Lozano at Kevin Lloyd Lozano Speaker 2: and form our odd Loads content. Go to Bloomberg dot Speaker 2: com slash odd Lots for the daily newsletter and all Speaker 2: of our episodes, and you can chat about all these Speaker 2: topics twenty four seven in our discord discord dot gg Speaker 2: slash odlines. 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