Anthropic Claude Builder Day.
Fancy way to say hackathon in San Francisco.
If it wasn’t for the pulling of Fable last night this was also to be a celebration of Anthropic’s launch. In talking with builders a few told me they were disappointed because they loved Fable in the few days they had to build. All had stories about how much better Fable is than other models they have tried.
People came from all over the world to participate and so there was a bummed undertone that they couldn’t use Fable but other than that I was impressed by the breadth of what people were building and had great conversations with lots of builders about the state of the art of AI and various companies being built.
The Anthropic employees I talked with obviously stayed away from commenting on the news. The ones I talked with, who ran the event, are on the startup relationship team, and reminded me of doing that kind of work at Microsoft and Rackspace earlier in my career.
It is impressive to see hundreds of builders all working with AI building different things. This picture is just of one of the rooms, which is at the Ferry building, one of San Francisco’s most famous and historic buildings with a glorious view of the bay. Held at
@SHACK15sf.
In replies are the top seven teams presenting.
I didn’t meet anyone else who wasn’t building other than the judges. Feel very blessed to be able to hang out with people building the future.
And came away much more impressed with the love of Anthropic and the quality of people working there, who are just as head spun by last night’s events as we all are.
Those of us who mouth off here on X often forget about all of them in times like this. So tip of my hat to them.