Notes

Anthropic filed to go public. Here's what it had to admit.

On October 26, the company that makes Claude filed the paperwork to sell its stock to the public. The law makes a company write down what could go wrong before it takes your money, so these 335 pages say more than Anthropic has ever said in public. Here's who controls Anthropic, where the money really goes, why it signed up for so much computing power and who else is on the hook, what it says about jobs and safety, and where its story doesn't hold together.

22 min

This meeting could have been a prompt

Most companies gave their people AI and got faster email. The payoff comes from changing how work moves between people, and that means building agents into the company instead of handing them out one person at a time. Here's the case, and a playbook for getting started.

8 min

The clever part goes between runs

The dashboard tour showed four screens. This note is about the line running through all of them: the layer that measures is deliberately dumb, the layer that improves is where the intelligence goes, and I sit in the gate between the two.

PROMPTED BY — Build Log No. 002 — Agent observability and performance · 6 min

Trust is a schedule, not a verdict

The useful question was never whether the machine was good enough to trust with the house. It was what it could touch this week, and what it had to prove to touch more.

PROMPTED BY — Build Log No. 001 — Hands last · 6 min