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Slow Takes Ep. 8: Between the Demo and the Desk

Slow Takes Ep. 8: Between the Demo and the Desk

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Anthropic released Opus 4.7 on Thursday. A day later it launched Claude Design and Figma and Adobe shares fell on the announcement. Tinder and Zoom want to scan your eye to prove you are human. Microsoft is rolling AI agents into the Windows 11 taskbar. And Coventry City Council has renewed a £750,000 contract with Palantir to summarise children’s social work case notes.Five stories. One thread. The distance between the demo and the desk.Every Monday at 12:45 BST, Leor from Exploring ChatGPT and I go through the week’s AI news without hype. Here is what we covered.Slow Takes is also available on the YouTube channel: Exploring ChatGPT.1. Opus 4.7: is it really that much better?Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April. The headline claims: a 13% lift over Opus 4.6 on a 93-task coding benchmark, an 87.6% score on SWE-bench Verified, vision capacity raised from 1.15 to 3.75 megapixels, and a new ‘xhigh’ effort level sitting between high and max. Pricing is unchanged on paper. The model ships with new cybersecurity safeguards and without the full capabilities of Mythos Preview, which Anthropic is still holding back for enterprise partners.What we said on the live:Leor had two takes. One, Anthropic have not shipped everything Mythos can do. The public is not trusted with the capabilities reserved for defence and enterprise partners. Two, the tokenizer has changed. A task that used to cost X tokens now costs roughly 1.3 to 1.4 times as many. Same price per token, more tokens per task. Pro Max users get fewer tasks inside the same monthly cap. That is a price rise Anthropic never had to announce. There is also an unverified rumour that 4.7 is being silently rerouted to lower models for some tasks, which would be a second cost saving hidden from the user. The safer lesson is one the chat picked up on. Use Haiku for emails, Sonnet for most research, Opus for the hard problems. Most people do not need the top model, and paying for it does not guarantee they get it.What did not come up:Anthropic’s release cadence is now fast enough that no one individual can keep up. ToxSec, Karo (Product with Attitude), Daria Cupareanu and others stay awake testing models so the rest of us can rely on second-hand reads. The flood is a feature. In a month where every week delivers a new release, the slow reader has no chance to scrutinise what changed before the next release arrives. Somewhere inside that flow, something will get shipped that we should have pushed back on. Faster reading will not fix that. Slower writing might. A version number and a press release do not add up to a product. Better at what, at what cost, and how long before 4.8 makes this whole conversation obsolete?2. Claude Design: end of Figma and Canva?The day after Opus 4.7, Anthropic launched Claude Design. It takes a text prompt and returns a working prototype, a website, a presentation, or a brand system. Exports go to PDF, PowerPoint, HTML, direct to Canva, and handoff to Claude Code for deployment. It is bundled into existing Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscriptions at no additional charge. Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s Chief Product Officer and the Instagram co-founder, resigned from Figma’s board of directors on 14 April, three days before Claude Design launched. Figma and Adobe shares fell 7% on the announcement.What we said on the live:I built a complete Slow AI design system in Claude Design over the weekend. Brand board, palette, typography, three image styles, a small component library. That is a deliverable I would have paid a designer four figures for, or botched myself over a weekend. Figma’s moat was the design file as the shared source of truth. Canva’s moat was templates for people who could not afford a designer. Claude Design reads a style guide and produces bespoke assets in minutes. Leor and I agreed on where this lands. The 90% that used to take a week now takes 90 minutes. The last 10% is where taste lives. Colleen Kenny in the chat put it well. Graphic design as we know it is over, but you still need instincts and taste. Anyone who has tried to brief a design tool without clarity about what they want will know exactly what she means. I would also recommend following AI Meets Girlboss for excellent strategy and advice here. What did not come up:Mike Krieger held his Figma board seat while Anthropic built the product that cut Figma’s share price. Three days between resignation and launch. No illegality alleged. The question is why boards tolerate that level of proximity in the first place. The second thing we almost said out loud is that Claude Design looks like a precursor to image generation inside Claude, and further down the line to an Anthropic IPO. If the scaffolding for a Figma competitor ships this quietly, the scaffolding for a Nano Banana competitor is already on someone’s roadmap. The question a design team, an agency, or an in-house function should be asking is what to charge for when the file is...
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