Show Notes
Felix Rieseberg is the engineering lead for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop at Anthropic. He previously spent five years at Slack building developer tools. In this episode, Felix demonstrates how he uses Claude to solve real-life problems: analyzing floor plans to build interactive 3D house walkthroughs, automatically tracking promises he makes on Twitter, and building a $20 hardware device that physically approves Claude actions with a button press.
What you’ll learn: How to use Claude Cowork to turn a 2D floor plan into an interactive 3D walkthrough where you can move furniture around The “go one abstraction layer up” philosophy: why you should never manually enter data Claude can find itself How to use your email as an inventory database for furniture, clothing, and personal purchases When to use Opus vs. Sonnet 4.6 (hint: it’s about how well you can scope the problem, not technical complexity) How live artifacts work and why they’re powerful for dashboards that refresh with real-time data from your connectors The product philosophy behind making latency delightful How to build your own $20 hardware device using Claude Code (no hardware experience required) Why Felix never reads the code Claude writes and judges it purely on output — Brought to you by: Magic Patterns—Prototypes that look like your product Guru—The AI layer of truth — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introduction to Felix Rieseberg (02:40) Felix’s role at Anthropic (03:25) The multiple tabs in Claude and why they exist (05:55) Using Claude Cowork to design a new house using floor plans (09:52) When to use Opus versus Sonnet 4.6 (12:37) Building an interactive 3D furniture planner (14:30) Using your email as a source of truth for personal inventory (15:58) The anti-to-do list: going one abstraction layer up (23:14) Introduction to live artifacts (26:02) Building a personal dashboard with live data (28:37) Being polite to Claude (and why it matters for your humanity) (30:28) Claude interaction tips (32:33) Looking at the daily dashboard (33:55) How live artifacts work with connectors (35:02) Redesigning the dashboard (37:55) The biggest gap: people don’t know what problems AI can solve (41:52) The reverse interview (42:30) Making latency delightful through asynchronous design (44:05) The redesigned dashboard (45:28) AI should free up your creative energy (46:44) Building a $20 hardware Claude buddy (52:33) Why kids are magical AI users (54:30) Recap and final thoughts — Tools referenced: • Claude Cowork: https://www.anthropic.com/product/claude-cowork • Claude Code: https://claude.ai/code • Claude for Chrome: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/chrome • Claude Desktop: https://claude.ai/download • Live Artifacts: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14729249-use-live-artifacts-in-claude-cowork • Connectors (Spotify, Gmail, Calendar, Notion): https://claude.ai/settings/connectors • Slack: https://slack.com/ — Where to find Felix Rieseberg: Website: https://felixrieseberg.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixrieseberg/ X: https://x.com/felixrieseberg GitHub: https://github.com/felixrieseberg — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email [email protected].
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