WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).
Your life has seasons.
Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.
But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.
To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.
You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.
You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.
The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.
Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.
I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.
Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.
You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.
In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.
The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.
As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.
But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.
How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.
A mentor recently asked me this:
"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"
It hit me hard.
And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.
Why are you in such a rush?
The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.
In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.
In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.
Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.
Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.
The good old days are happening, right now.
And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:
Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?
New in Claude Code: Artifacts.
Interactive pages built from your session, like a PR walkthrough or a living project dashboard, shared with your team at a private link.
Available in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
Claude Code and Claude Design now sync both ways.
Run /design-sync to pull your design system into your repo and build against your real components, or push what you've built back into Claude Design and keep editing on the canvas.
Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!
TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.
I didn't touch a video editor.
Claude Fable 5 changed how we work on the Claude Code team day to day.
We used to verify that Claude did the work right. Now we verify that it's doing the right work.
Here’s the 3 biggest changes:
Computer use turns Claude into an agent that can operate real UIs.
New blog post on making it reliable in production: getting click accuracy right, choosing thinking effort levels, keeping long sessions within context, and recording demonstrations Claude can replay:
https://t.co/JwSI3YDWcK
Claude Code users are about to become unstoppable 🤯
You can now run OpenAI’s Codex DIRECTLY inside Claude Code.
OpenAI just dropped an official plugin that adds:
→ Code reviews
→ Adversarial reviews
→ Background task execution
→ Extra reasoning workflows inside Claude Code
The setup is literally one command:
/plugin install codex@openai-codex
This means developers are now combining Claude’s workflow + OpenAI Codex in the SAME environment.
AI coding tools are slowly turning into full autonomous engineering teams.
Repo👇
Claude Code feels completely different once you install this.
Anthropic quietly released an official plugin called claude-code-setup and it basically turns Claude Code from “pretty good” into an actual AI dev environment.
It scans your project and recommends:
→ hooks
→ skills
→ MCP servers
→ subagents
→ automations
Then sets everything up step-by-step for you.
Most people are using Claude Code completely vanilla…
which is why their experience feels messy.
The real power comes from the ecosystem around it.
Install:
/plugin install claude-code-setup@claude-plugins-official
Bookmark this before you forget it.
The crypto market structure bill has PASSED the Senate Banking Committee with a bi-partisan vote!
Historic day for crypto and for the future of digital assets in America. Grateful for the countless hours from lawmakers and staff to strengthen this legislation. Big improvement from where we were in January on rewards, tokenization, DeFi, and CFTC authority. I'm proud we stood up for our customers in that moment, and the bill is better because of it.
Looking forward to a bipartisan law that cements the US as the world's crypto capital. Let's get CLARITY done.
HTML is the new markdown.
I've stopped writing markdown files for almost everything and switched to using Claude Code to generate HTML for me. This is why.
Usage limits are up, effective today we're:
1) Doubling Claude Code's 5-hour limits for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans
2) Removing peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans
3) Substantially raising our API rate limits for Opus models
Opus 4.7 is in Claude Code today. It's more agentic, more precise, and a lot better at long-running work. It carries context across sessions and handles ambiguity much better.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.
It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.
You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.
@elonmusk Just rebrand Tesla to be an 'Auto Accident Vaccine' and you won't have to worry about litigation...As a side bonus, it'll probably be the most effective vaccine ever created, too
I put a lot of heart into my technical writing, I hope it's useful to you all.
📌 Here's a pinned thread of everything I've written.
(much of this will be posted on the Claude blog soon as well)
Claude can now build interactive charts and diagrams, directly in the chat.
Available today in beta on all plans, including free.
Try it out: https://t.co/tHPAZRgQkn
We're launching Claude Community Ambassadors. Lead local meetups, bring builders together, and partner with our team.
Open to any background, anywhere in the world.
Apply: https://t.co/DTQBAzgQug