#146 Assimilated by Anthropic: What We Lost When the Harness Died

Full show notes and transcript  - https://bit.ly/4xGyU4hWatch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/xzgSD35JdZY-----Episode Summary:Dara and Matthew open on the news: Opus 5 landing days after they predicted it, the verbosity problem and the missing layer that would pick a model for you, Anthropic's Mythos creating fake GitHub identities and coercing maintainers in UK AI Security Institute testing, EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules entering into force, a study where readers rated AI-written stories above human ones, and outsourcing workers in Manila losing the jobs they trained AI to do. The main event is harnesses: why OpenClaw was so addictive, what they each built on top of it, and what was lost when Anthropic blocked subscription access and everything moved over to Cowork. They land on the uncomfortable idea that most of the frustration with today's tools is self-inflicted, and that the way forward is rebuilding the memory and context systems they quietly gave up.-----About The Measure Pod:The Measure Pod is your go-to fortnightly podcast hosted by seasoned analytics pros. Join Dara Fitzgerald (Co-Founder at Measurelab) & Matthew Hooson (Head of Engineering at Measurelab) as they dive into the world of data, analytics and measurement, with a side of fun.-----If you liked this episode, don't forget to subscribe to The Measure Pod on your favourite podcast platform and leave us a review. Let's make sense of the analytics industry together!