Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction

The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck · Beginner ·🤖 AI Agents & Automation ·3w ago

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Felix Rieseberg leads engineering for Claude Cowork at Anthropic, one of the most important new agentic AI products in the market today. In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck sits down with Felix to discuss Anthropic’s newly announced Claude Mythos Preview, why Felix sees it as a genuine step-function change, and what it means when frontier AI starts showing outsized cybersecurity capabilities. The conversation then goes deep on Claude Cowork: how it emerged from Claude Code, what the famous “10-day” story really means, why Anthropic believes AI needs access to the local computer, and how Cowork actually works under the hood. Felix explains why skills are just text files, why memory is often just text files too, and how Anthropic thinks about building trust in AI agents. They also explore some of the biggest questions in AI product design and the future of software: why UX may matter as much as the model itself, why execution is becoming dramatically cheaper, what that means for product management and startups, and why Felix believes taste, alignment, and understanding humans may matter more than ever. Felix Rieseberg Website - https://felixrieseberg.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixrieseberg X/Twitter - https://x.com/felixrieseberg Anthropic Website - https://www.anthropic.com X/Twitter - https://x.com/AnthropicAI Matt Turck (Managing Director) Blog - https://mattturck.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck/ X/Twitter - https://x.com/mattturck FirstMark Website - https://firstmark.com X/Twitter - https://x.com/FirstMarkCap Listen on: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7yLATDSaFvgJG80ACcRJtq Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mad-podcast-with-matt-turck/id1686238724 00:00 Intro 01:53 Claude Mythos Preview and the “step-function change” 06:16 Why Anthropic is treating Mythos differently 11:19 The real story behind Claude Cowork’s “10-day” build 12:42 Why Anthropic realized Claude Code needed a non-technic

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Chapters (5)

Intro

1:53 Claude Mythos Preview and the “step-function change”

6:16 Why Anthropic is treating Mythos differently

11:19 The real story behind Claude Cowork’s “10-day” build

12:42 Why Anthropic realized Claude Code needed a non-technic

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