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Claude Will Never Stop Texting You

March 25, 2026 · 1 h 9 min

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Anthropic shipped Dispatch - a way to text Claude from your phone while it works on your laptop. Rich thinks it might be as big as the invention of the cell phone. Pierce thinks it's the nail in the coffin for work-life balance. They debate what happens when there's never an excuse to stop working and whether AI productivity is even real or just more code to maintain. Plus: OpenAI acquires Astral, GPT 5.4 Mini and the parameter golf challenge, Elon's TeraFab chip factory comes for TSMC, Nvidia's pivot from training to inference with Vera Rubin, and Sam Altman wants you to stare into an orb so your agent can use your credit card.

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