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Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and desktop app core UX ~3x faster in August

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Anthropic reported that in August it improved the core user experience of Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app by approximately 3x, using an internal model to ship enhancements within a two-week sprint. The company noted that once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster, and it kept finding more things to measure.

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    Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app's core UX ~3x faster in August using an internal model to ship improvements "in a two-week sprint" (Anthropic)

    Anthropic : Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app's core UX ~3x faster in August using an internal model to ship improvements “in a two-week sprint” — Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster. So we kept finding more things to measure. Raymond Wang, Sam Attard, and Issac G.

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