Aaron Cohen

VP Marketing - lots of XR, AI and industrial tech

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@ClaudeDevs 4.8 reduced my total permitted usage by about 99%. Hardly was able to use it before getting freezed out. Do we get refunds?

[Warren H. Cohn @WarCo1]

Here’s the email to employees:

Team,

Hope everyone’s doing well and enjoying the productivity enhancements from our AI tooling initiative.

Unfortunately, Finance has asked me to clarify a small issue.

It appears someone, and by “someone” I mean apparently all of you simultaneously, managed to spend $500,000,000 on @claudeai usage in a single month.

For context:
•NASA landed on the moon for less.
•We are now the proud owner of approximately 14% of Anthropic.
•Claude personally sent us a thank-you fruit basket.
•Our CFO has entered a fugue state and only communicates through Slack emojis.
•The electricity usage from your prompts briefly dimmed parts of Northern Virginia.
While we appreciate innovation, there are concerns that:
•“Can you make this email sound slightly warmer?” did not require 11,400 generations.
•Asking Claude to “rewrite this in the style of Succession, Hemingway, and Tony Soprano combined” may have been excessive.
•One employee appears to have used Claude to generate “a quick list of lunch options” that somehow consumed the GDP of a small island nation.

Going forward, please observe the following guidelines:
1Do not upload the entire internet into Claude “for context.”
2If your prompt begins with “simulate every possible outcome,” reconsider.
3Claude should not be used to:
◦settle fantasy football disputes,
◦write your wedding vows 97 times,
◦generate revenge edits of your ex’s LinkedIn bio,
◦or ask “what if Rome had WiFi?”

Most importantly:

If you see the message:

“This request may require additional datacenter construction”

…please stop immediately and contact IT.

Thank you all for your cooperation during this challenging yet technologically groundbreaking time.

Warm regards,
Management

P.S. Whoever prompted:
“Generate every possible PR angle for every company founded since 1983”
…we just want to talk.

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@sama Narrow gap between the hype from YouTube tutorials and actual practical use of agents. When something sounds too easy on YouTube it simply is not easy.

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@om_patel5 We shouldn't single out Anthropic but Amazon is, admittedly, a better model for customer service for those wishing to scale like this through automation.

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@kimmonismus This protest could have been mitigated or prevented with better comms and a slow roll.

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@Anuragg52704997 @bcherny

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@sama What about price/EQ? Seems that's rarely discussed publicly anymore by OpenAI and it used to be a huge talking point.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Codex now works directly in Chrome on macOS and Windows.

It’s even better at working with apps and sites in Chrome, and now works in parallel across tabs in the background without taking over your browser.

To get started, install the Chrome plugin in the Codex app.

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@BytCtrl @om_patel5 Sure, but isn't that kinda of all obvious even before? Why else would they degrade a product?

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@aravhawk @OpenAIDevs You nailed it. It an't debug worth a damn. I thought it wa supposed to be the smartest model ever (other than Mythos)

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@DiveshSydney @mweinbach Good to know. I was hoping you would say open router or something like that

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@simranrambles X-or

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@sama Everything actually lands in the middle which is far more boring

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@AlexFinn @AlexFinn is the vibe king

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@sama Saw that subtle dig on Claude 😉

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@sama Thanks for sharing. I wish it was a bit deeper with details but this is a start. Keep the blogs pumping

[Aaron Cohen @cohencomms]

@OpenAI Can you provide a comparison with Claude and Gemini? It's hard to compare what you get and who to choose