"My job is telling Claude to think bigger"—devs joke about AI ambition gap
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-22
Developer Jarred Sumner quips that much of his job now is telling Claude "you need to think bigger," and Anthropic researcher Andrew Carr jokes back: how many months until Claude's main job is telling us to think bigger? The exchange captures how frontier coding models have shifted the bottleneck—users now under-ask rather than models under-deliver.
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