EPISODE · Mar 4, 2026 · 10 MIN
About Claude - Moving In
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SHOW NOTESClaude had its biggest weekend ever — and then its servers fell over. This episode is about what happens when a product built for a particular kind of person suddenly becomes famous, who showed up, and what Anthropic did to welcome them.In this episode:Why Claude crashed on Monday — and why "unprecedented demand" is the stranger explanation it soundsThe Pentagon backdrop: how a principled stand put Anthropic in front of people who'd never heard of itMemory goes free: what it means to give away the feature that makes Claude feel like a relationship rather than a search engineThe import prompt: Anthropic wrote a breakup letter for you to send to ChatGPTWhat gets lost in translation when you move your AI history — and what that reveals about how these relationships actually workLinks:Anthropic status page (March 2 outage): https://status.anthropic.comAnthropic memory announcement: https://anthropic.comBloomberg on the outage and demand surge: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/anthropics-chatbot-claude-goes-down-amid-unprecedented-demandCNN on Claude hitting App Store #1: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/tech/anthropic-claude-ai-app-pentagonWinbuzzer on memory going free: https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/03/anthropic-drops-memory-paywall-free-claude-users-xcxwbn/Referenced in this episode:EP017: No Ads in Sight — the divergent bets Anthropic and OpenAI made on what a free user is worth🌐 Website: aboutclaude.xyz🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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SHOW NOTESClaude had its biggest weekend ever — and then its servers fell over. This episode is about what happens when a product built for a particular kind of person suddenly becomes famous, who showed up, and what Anthropic did to welcome them.In this episode:Why Claude crashed on Monday — and why "unprecedented demand" is the stranger explanation it soundsThe Pentagon backdrop: how a principled stand put Anthropic in front of people who'd never heard of itMemory goes free: what it means to give away the feature that makes Claude feel like a relationship rather than a search engineThe import prompt: Anthropic wrote a breakup letter for you to send to ChatGPTWhat gets lost in translation when you move your AI history — and what that reveals about how these relationships actually workLinks:Anthropic status page (March 2 outage): https://status.anthropic.comAnthropic memory announcement: https://anthropic.comBloomberg on the outage and demand surge: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/anthropics-chatbot-claude-goes-down-amid-unprecedented-demandCNN on Claude hitting App Store #1: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/tech/anthropic-claude-ai-app-pentagonWinbuzzer on memory going free: https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/03/anthropic-drops-memory-paywall-free-claude-users-xcxwbn/Referenced in this episode:EP017: No Ads in Sight — the divergent bets Anthropic and OpenAI made on what a free user is worth🌐 Website: aboutclaude.xyz🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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