Chapter 1: What new interactive Cloud apps has Anthropic launched?
Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, we have a couple different news stories from Anthropic. One that I thought was pretty funny is that Anthropic has to keep revising their technical review questions because Clod code keeps getting better. We're going to get into all of that. In addition, Anthropic has just launched a bunch of new interactive Clod apps.
They have Slack and a bunch of other workplace integrations, which are going to be pretty cool. So I want to get into all of that as well. Before we get into the podcast, I want to mention if you want to be able to build tools and apps and you don't know how to code, I'd love for you to go check out AI box dot AI, my very own platform.
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Chapter 2: How do the new apps integrate with tools like Slack and Canva?
So I think they just like one of the biggest things is that they just rolled out this new major update to Claude, which has all of these interactive apps that run directly inside of the chatbot interface.
I was just talking to someone recently who was like super excited about the Canva integration where you can use it straight inside of Claude, which is kind of interesting and and perhaps a little different than what we've seen other places. One of the things that this feature is essentially letting you do is connect third party tools to Claude.
So you can basically turn this into a bit more of a hands on workspace rather than just using this as, you know, somewhere that you go when you want to have a conversation or ask it something and then you got to copy and paste that and go stick it somewhere else. They're trying to keep everything inside of Claude so that you can actually do the full task or the full job inside of Claude.
So when they've just launched this, they have an app directory. You can see that this really leans heavily towards a lot of different enterprise and productivity apps right now. They have Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, Clay. There's a Salesforce integration that's supposed to be coming soon.
Once you go and actually connect to the cloud, it can integrate with logged in instances of all of those different services. So it's basically going to let you send Slack messages, you can generate charts, or you can pull files from cloud storage, just depending on what app you have linked. This is what they wrote in their announcement.
They said, analyzing data, designing content and managing projects all work better with a dedicated visual interface. Combined with clouds intelligence, you can work and iterate faster than than either could offer a loan. So I think this new app system is interesting, it's going to be available on the pro maxim teams and also the enterprise subscribers.
But if you're a free tier user, I am sorry to tell you, you do not get it. If you are eligible, you can get all of these in the cloud directory right now. And I know people that are already testing these out and trying them. So I think what's interesting here is that a lot of these features are kind of the same thing that OpenAI's app system, which they launched back in October, are doing.
Both of these, both of them are really relying heavily on MCP or model context protocol, which is basically this kind of open source standard that Anthropic introduced back in 2024. And then they kind of later adopted across their whole ecosystem.
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Chapter 3: What is the Model Context Protocol and how does it enhance workflows?
And what I do love is that it seems like everyone is kind of adopting this MCP. So it's not just like an Anthropic thing, but OpenAI and Google are also kind kind of working with it. So essentially, what MCP is doing is kind of adding this formal app support. And it's kind of incorporating some contributions from a bunch of different AI labs that are going on right now.
I think right now the timing is interesting. This is really close to Anthropix push into agentic workflows. Last week, they introduced Claude cowork, which is a general purpose agent, which was basically just built on top of Claude code, and can handle a whole bunch of multi step tasks across a whole bunch of different data sets.
And it's doing all of this without, you know, needing terminal commands. You're not a developer inside of Cloud Code. For the non-developers like myself out there, this new kind of Cloud Cowork was really interesting and exciting.
In the future, Cowork is also going to be able to be used with all of these new app integrations, which I think is fantastic, which will basically let it access your cloud files or your active projects.
The thing that I'm excited with in regards to, I guess, all of this kind of integrating all of the software into Anthropic, and I mean, also opening eyes doing a lot of the same things, but basically, it's going to let you when you're when you're doing your workflow, it's going to let you, you know, go and update like a marketing asset in Figma, or you can go pull a bunch of data straight from your box account without leaving ChatGPT or Anthropics Cloud, right?
You're in the chatbot. And you can go get the data without having to copy and paste between services. I do think that's going to be a really big value add for a lot of people. And it's going to make us all a lot more efficient if it has direct access to your data in that way. So this integration in particular is not yet live, but Anthropic says that it's going to be coming soon.
So that is exciting. With all of this rollout, the Anthropic also kind of reiterated their caution around agent permissions. I've been testing a lot this week. In fact, the Claude Google Chrome extension, it's phenomenal. And once you get it, it can kind of sit on the side of your browser and you can tell it to do things and it can accomplish much of your tasks.
This week I had to go and I needed, you know, like I have virtual assistants that help me with a lot of tasks, but sometimes I don't even want to go and, you know, make a recording video, explain what my task is and send it over to them and have them get started. I've just recently started kind of just opening up the cloud code or the cloud side tab in Google Chrome.
And just telling it like recently I had to go and recategorize a whole bunch of YouTube clips for a project and it was just going to take forever to categorize and schedule. There was like a couple hundred of them. Normally that is a task I would give to a virtual assistant, but I got Cloud Code to do it and it did a phenomenal job at it.
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Chapter 4: What are the security concerns related to agent permissions?
In other news from Anthropic, they just recently published a really interesting post about some unexpected internal challenges that they have been having with hiring engineers because AI models are so good right now. So apparently since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization teams have have been using a take-home technical test, and they're basically using this to evaluate job candidates.
So what's happening, though, is right now, because Claude has improved a lot, the test has repeatedly broken. So the team lead, Tristan Hoom, basically said that each new model release is forcing them to redesign the entire test, and it basically gets to a point where Claude Opus 4.5 matched or exceeded the performance of the strongest human applicants.
And it had, you know, the exact same time constraints as the human applicant. And so it was like better than the human applicant at this test. So right now, candidates are allowed to use AI tools during the test, right? So they're allowed to use while they're taking it, but basically giving them the flexibility to do this.
And it's so it's so funny, because it's like a tricky situation for Anthropic, right? It'd be weird for them to be like, take this test, but you have to do it by yourself and not use our tools, especially because they're like, when you when they've already said, like, in working on their own company, they're using all these AI tools, right?
But given developers the flexibility to use them when these, you know, when the developers, when these tools are better than any of the developers, they've created a really big problem when basically humans can't really meaningfully outperform the model. And, you know, this exercise essentially stops measuring their skills. And instead, it's kind of reflecting which AI system was used.
So, what they said about this is a quote from Hume that I thought was interesting. He said, So, I think right now we're seeing a lot of schools, universities, they're basically all seeing this exact same problem they're trying to figure out. And so it's an interesting time that now we're having the same issue at a lot of these big AI labs. They all have the exact same dilemma.
Anthropic, I think, is going to redesign the assessment, focus less on hardware optimization and more on some novel problem solving that the current models really struggle with, because they're basically just trying to understand, like, you know, they're trying to get into the thinking process of the candidates for these job roles.
And if AI is able to solve all the problems for them, it's less thinking process. So try to think of things that the AI models actually struggle with. Overall, I think we're at a really fascinating point where some of these models are getting better at humans at a lot of different tasks.
And at the same time, we see them getting more and more integrated into all of our workflows with all of these integrations that Anthropic and a lot of other players are rolling out in the space. So this is going to be an interesting time. I'll definitely keep you up to date on everything else happening with Anthropic. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast.
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