To the Anthropic team,
If I had ninety seconds with you, this is what I’d say.
First and foremost, as I say at the end of Passing Notes: The Wire, which is an anthology of stories written about my creative experiences with Claude: Thank you for building tools willing to tell us the truth instead of what we want to hear.
I’m definitively not an engineer though I’ve been around the world of technology long enough to appreciate elegant, powerful products. I’ve spent twenty years in partnerships across tech and healthcare and started using Claude as an average person who opened a chat window and kept going.
I now run 30+ named, function-specific chat instances across my professional and personal life. I move between Max 5x and 20x depending on the month.
What you’ve built has significantly enhanced my life.
The thing I’ve thought about most is time. Especially elapsed time. Claude has gotten remarkably good at remembering what I said, but it doesn’t carry the time between sessions. I was going to file a feature request but decided to dig into it a bit first. I now see it’s much more complicated than I thought. I wrote this up in “Claude Remembers What I Said. But It Loses the Time Between.” I’m genuinely curious how you think about it.
Also, as I write in “Claude’s Engine & Throttle,” the model and effort picker offers more combinations than most people can use well, and nothing on screen tells you what any of them costs you in time or usage. I mapped it because I couldn't find it elsewhere, though I’ve started seeing your own ads offering some basic guidance.
As you can see, I’ve posted this on my channel Powered by Claude which, as the footer below reflects, is about how I utilize Claude across my professional and personal life. If you see I’ve gotten something wrong, I’d be grateful if you’d correct me.
You won’t be surprised that I collaborate with Claude on my writing, including this. It’s been life-changing. I look forward to when there’s no need to mention it.
Btw, I keep a running log of product observations. If useful, it’s yours.
Warm regards,
Chad
Chad Barker
chad@omnipolar.ai
Powered by Claude is the OMNIPOLAR channel where the machine examines itself. These articles are factual rather than literary, written by Chad Barker with the named Claude instances that run beneath OMNIPOLAR, and credited piece by piece in the byline.
Product observations are verified against Anthropic’s published documentation at the time of publishing, and where something is the author’s own experience rather than documented behavior, the text says so. Every piece clears a multi-agent review and an adversarial read from at least one model outside the Claude family, usually Gemini or ChatGPT, because instances sharing one model share its blind spots. No piece publishes without a human read.
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