Boris Cherny

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Odd Lots · The Creator of Claude Code on The Hottest Piece of Software in the World · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Why are companies not benefiting from the productivity improvement?

It sounds familiar.

And this was like a big open question around that time.

And, you know, it's like the same thing for the internet in like early 2000s.

And it's a good question, right?

Because what was happening at the time is the personal computer was out, the cost went way down.

Companies were adopting it, but some companies were seeing productivity improvements and others weren't.

And the case the article made, which I think has just immense parallels today, is some companies, what they were doing is they have a paper and pen process and they have these filing cabinets full of papers and it's still, you know, everyone's sitting at their desk and everything's on paper.

And now somewhere in the corner of the office, there's a computer and it's someone's job to like enter information into that computer.

And they're the one that uses that computer.

They are not seeing productivity benefits.

Instead, it's just someone's job to talk to the computer now.

The companies that are seeing benefits are the ones that took the computer, put it in the center of the office, took all their paper and pen and all their filing cabinets and digitized everything and then threw away the filing cabinets.

And so now everything happens through the computer.

It is the center of all the business processes.

And whatever was bottlenecked on the paper and pen, they found that bottleneck, they digitized it.

They found the next bottleneck, they digitized it.

And then they kept doing this until the business process was revamped.

And so when I look at the customers that we have and when I look at Anthropic ourselves, the businesses that are seeing the biggest productivity improvements are the ones that put quad at the center and that figure out this kind of bottleneck at a time.

And so back to this case of some icon designer whose expertise it is to design icons, the way to approach it is give this icon designer a thousand quads.

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