My thoughts and observations from hosting an evening with Anthropic…
With the launch of Claude CoWork this week, the next event should be a big one!
1. Agentic abundance
Karen from Anthropic gave a refreshingly un-corporate talk about agent orchestration. Her core encouragement: throw multiple agents at a problem and let them share context with each other.
This runs counter to how most of us work with AI right now—carefully crafting one agent, one system prompt, iterating cautiously. What if we’ve been too precious about it?
The idea that’s stuck with me: start with twice as many agents as you think you need. Calibrate their personalities to complement each other. Watch what behaviours actually help. Then synthesise fewer, more effective agents from what you learn.
Build slapdash, then build properly. Know which you’re doing when. 10x the madness of your experiments.
2. Slow AI
What happens when you remove the time limit?
Deep Research is a demo of this. It takes long enough that you go do something else while it works. But we haven’t really explored the space yet. What would most people find useful for AI to do for eight hours overnight, slowly chipping away at something?
Beyond coding, what benefits from that kind of patient, persistent attention? This has to be a big part of our future, it’s where I’d be experimenting most if I had a product in the field today.
3. Making things changes people
This was my favourite moment of the evening.
We’ve been through an era where people simply didn’t have access to the tools of production. This isn’t just a problem because we ended up with homogenous software. It’s a problem because creativity and making things is a key way to expand as a person.
In the room, I watched people’s eyes light up—software engineers, designers, marketers, didn’t matter. When things feel possible, your brain turns on differently. When someone swivels their laptop to show you with pride what they just made, it rules.
Demand was crazy with this first event – but it was a bit of a learning experience. My real goal is to create a space where non-techy people can rub shoulders with engineers and see how easy it is to get started. I want to make a space where people can just plug into a monitor and show what they built on their laptop.
Most events are about sitting quietly as an audience – I want Claude Code Curious to be the best dialogue on Claude and what it can do outside of coding.
If that sounds good to you, sign up here for our next event in early Feb.