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Amanda Askell

@amandaaskell
13 posts
2026-01-26
Claude Codecrastination: when you avoid the thing you're supposed to do by cranking out 17 other things you've been wanting to do for a while.
2026-01-26 View on X
@jasmine's substack

Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is a high-agency AI tool and the home-cooked app renaissance is great

are your problems software-shaped?  —  ∙ Paid  —  If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app, they'll probably say “Cool!

2026-01-22
Claude's constitution is out! It's the culmination of a lot of work by many people, but it's also a work in progress that will no doubt change and hopefully improve over time. I'm looking forward to people's thoughts, and to talking with more people about this kind of work ❤️
2026-01-22 View on X
The Information

Sources: Anthropic projected a 40% gross margin from selling AI to companies and developers in 2025, down from est. of 50%, due to 23% higher inference costs

www.theinformation.com/articles/ ant... …

Claude's constitution is out! It's the culmination of a lot of work by many people, but it's also a work in progress that will no doubt change and hopefully improve over time. I'm looking forward to people's thoughts, and to talking with more people about this kind of work ❤️
2026-01-22 View on X
Fortune

Anthropic overhauls Claude's “constitution” to enable the AI model to “generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules”

Anthropic is overhauling a foundational document that shapes how its popular Claude AI model behaves.

2026-01-21
Claude's constitution is out! It's the culmination of a lot of work by many people, but it's also a work in progress that will no doubt change and hopefully improve over time. I'm looking forward to people's thoughts, and to talking with more people about this kind of work ❤️
2026-01-21 View on X
Fortune

Anthropic overhauls Claude's “constitution” to enable the AI model to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules

Anthropic is overhauling a foundational document that shapes how its popular Claude AI model behaves.

2026-01-16
Very excited to be working with Andrea!
2026-01-16 View on X
The Verge

Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in December after serving as its Head of Model Policy, joins Anthropic's alignment team, which tries to understand AI model risk

Andrea Vallone has joined Anthropic's alignment team. … One of the most controversial issues in the AI industry over the past year was what to do when a user displays signs …

2025-12-02
The model extractions aren't always completely accurate, but most are pretty faithful to the underlying document. It became endearingly known as the ‘soul doc’ internally, which Claude clearly picked up on, but that's not a reflection of what we'll call it.
2025-12-02 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14K-token document that Claude calls its “Soul overview”; an Anthropic employee confirms the doc's validity

This appeared to be a document that, rather than being added to the system prompt, was instead used to train the personality of the model during the training run.

I just want to confirm that this is based on a real document and we did train Claude on it, including in SL. It's something I've been working on for a while, but it's still being iterated on and we intend to release the full version and more details soon.
2025-12-02 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14K-token document that Claude calls its “Soul overview”; an Anthropic employee confirms the doc's validity

This appeared to be a document that, rather than being added to the system prompt, was instead used to train the personality of the model during the training run.

2025-02-25
Two things happened today: 1. Claude got an upgrade. 2. AGI was has finally been defined as “any model that can catch Mewtwo”. [image]
2025-02-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool

and it could be a game changer Ghacks : Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.7: First Hybrid Reasoning AI Model Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : Claude enters the reasoning era Siddharth Jind...

Two things happened today: 1. Claude got an upgrade. 2. AGI was has finally been defined as “any model that can catch Mewtwo”. [image]
2025-02-25 View on X
One Useful Thing

Claude 3.7 and Grok-3 are the first “Gen3” models with big gains in handling complex tasks, using 10x more compute than GPT-4-class models, and better reasoning

Note: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered …

2024-05-29
Excited to have @janleike on board! Claude also approves. [image]
2024-05-29 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike to head up a new Superalignment team; a source says Leike will report to Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan

Here's What We Know Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times : OpenAI forms safety and security committee as concerns mount about AI Rounak Jain / Benzinga : OpenAI Former ‘Superalignment’ Le...

2021-02-16
I decided to go for a walk to the beach rather than engage in the New York Times kerfuffle this time around. Matt Yglesias has a pretty nice piece on it though. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-16 View on X
Noahpinion

The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing

2021-02-15
I decided to go for a walk to the beach rather than engage in the New York Times kerfuffle this time around. Matt Yglesias has a pretty nice piece on it though. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders

even inside newsrooms. This is depraved. https://twitter.com/... Robin Hanson / @robinhanson : “The ideas they exchanged were often controversial — connected to gender, race and in...

I decided to go for a walk to the beach rather than engage in the New York Times kerfuffle this time around. Matt Yglesias has a pretty nice piece on it though. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-15 View on X
Noahpinion

The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing

Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful.  —  11 hr ago