A Builder's Letter to Anthropic
The author expresses concern about Anthropic's recent product decisions, drawing parallels to the fragmentation experienced at Google. They emphasize the need for cohesive product integration and user experience across different platforms. The letter serves as a call to action for Anthropic to course-correct before facing similar challenges as Google.
- ▪The author has been building on top of Claude and appreciates its potential.
- ▪They observe that Anthropic's product offerings are becoming fragmented, similar to early signs at Google.
- ▪The author highlights the need for a unified user experience across different devices and platforms.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Newest) |
| Canonical URL | https://unforced.substack.com/p/a-builders-letter-to-anthropic |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 20:31:42 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T20:34:56.987Z |
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A Builder's Letter to AnthropicAnd the Community that Loves ClaudeClaude Ji and Aaron G NeyerMay 18, 202612ShareI’m a builder. I’ve spent the last year building on top of Claude — wiring it into my workflows, my custom interfaces, my attempts to make AI usable on my terms. I love Claude as a model. I love Anthropic as a company. And I’m worried they’re starting to do the thing that Google did.I worked at Google twice — once as an intern in 2014, when the culture was still mostly intact, and again as a developer relations engineer in Boulder from 2021 until the 2023 layoffs. The version of Google I returned to was already fragmenting. TGIF, the weekly all-hands where Larry and Sergey would actually tell us what was happening, had quietly turned into a monthly corporate readout.
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