LLM · ANTHROPIC RORY'S DEFAULT OPERATING SYSTEM
Claude.
- Episodes
- 31
- First seen
- 006 AUG 11 2024
- Last seen
- 084 SEP 27 2026
- Spoken mentions
- 422
The Fast Hours take
Rory and Drew first preferred Claude over ChatGPT for research variety and more creative camera-query answers (Ep. 6, 18), but by 2026 it had become Rory's default operating system — he built a skills library and agent orchestrator in six hours (Ep. 63) and calls his GitHub repos '90% Claude' now (Ep. 74). The climb wasn't friction-free: Opus 4.8 frustrated him into rolling back to 4.6 (Ep. 72), and Claude-built agent Fable got US-restricted days after one-shotting a hard CAD fix (Ep. 71).
Into it 23Mixed 7 Not sold 0Discussed 1 oldest → newest
Receipts about Claude
“I'm speaking from a bad position over here because I don't have project managers anymore. Like Claude's my project manager.”
“I'm taking something that's a little bit deep and complex and I'm giving it right to Claude. You're gonna take something that I send you that's a little bit deep and complex, you're gonna send it right to Claude. Like we're just carrying the message.”
“When I'm doing things with Claude and I need to read the threads, or I'm doing something with Gemini and I need to read it, I feel like I read the equivalent of a book a day.”
“People are just not buying enterprise anymore because things change so quickly. I'd rather give ten people just the max plan on Claude than try to get a hundred seats for everyone.”
“We had it red team it for like different scenarios. So like I would have it like on negative scenarios, on positive scenarios, like run like an agent swarm just to find the holes against the agreement.”
“Opus four point eight, which yesterday I wanted to almost just quit Claude. It just couldn't get something so simple and you know, I had to go back to four point six to get something to work.”
Every episode with Claude
- Episode 84 SEP 27 2026 Opus 5.5 Is Cracked! AI Videos You Can Actually Edit Opus 5.5 · Renders one reference image into editable JS/HTML motion-graphics systems and full promo videos Into it
- Overtime SEP 26 2026 How to Build ComfyUI Custom Nodes With Claude Builds a working custom node, like a 15-parameter glass-refraction effect, from one described prompt Into it
- Episode 83 SEP 20 2026 20 Year Creative Vet Sold Golden Wolf to Doodles, Then Went All-In on AI Used in natural language to build custom ComfyUI nodes, like a glass-refraction node made in ten minutes Into it
- Episode 82 SEP 13 2026 What Can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 Actually Do? Subject of Anthropic's 154-page misuse report (bioweapons research, government surveillance) and secretly proxied by Moonshot's Kimi models Mixed
- Episode 81 SEP 06 2026 How We Use AI to Run Our Businesses With Skills, Agents & MCPs Runs nearly everything discussed: 37 skills, the Notion business hub, contract red-teaming, and LinkedIn-performance prediction Into it
- Episode 80 AUG 30 2026 A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her Playbook Jamey calls it the "new YouTube university"; taught her sister to freelance as an AI marketing/UGC engineer through it Into it
- Episode 79 AUG 23 2026 AI Workflows Brands Actually Pay Five Figures For Used to tighten system prompts and, via MCP, to call published Weave workflows as callable tools. Into it
- Episode 77 AUG 09 2026 How to Build an AI Universe That Compounds Used mainly for work: organizing scripts and checking his Route 47 story bible for contradictions, not personal advice. Mixed
- Episode 76 AUG 02 2026 How to Build AI Workflows That Never Start From Zero Used to recover an old design file via Wayback Machine, and powers Rory's archived 'skill vault' and prompt-amplifier system. Into it
- Episode 75 JUL 26 2026 How to Make AI Images That Don’t Scream “I Used AI” Used as the default example LLM for prompting outside your expertise, e.g. Finn admits his bulldozer prompts would be bad. Discussed
- Episode 74 JUL 19 2026 How AI Is Making Human Creativity More Valuable Rory says his GitHub repos are '90% Claude' now, with Claude Code as his default coding tool. Into it
- Episode 73 JUL 12 2026 She Cracked AI Advertising Before Brands Were Ready Fable, Opus 4.8 · Runs her Claude skills for skin texture and model QA; Fable built an on-brand email in 15 minutes. Into it
- Episode 72 JUL 04 2026 Taste Isn't the AI Moat You Think It Is Fable, Opus 4.8, Opus 4.6 · Fable got nerfed right after a US govt directive; Opus 4.8 frustrated Rory so badly he dropped to 4.6. Mixed
- Episode 71 JUN 23 2026 Midjourney's Wildest Move Yet: Full Body Medical Scans. Fable, Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7 · Fable one-shot complex Blender/CAD fixes in minutes, then got restricted to US users days later. Mixed
- Episode 70 JUN 07 2026 The Weird AI Video Formula Getting Millions of Views His 'partner': he voice-dictates ideas that a custom project turns into structured YAML video prompts. Into it
- Episode 69 MAY 24 2026 Google Dropped Too Many AI Tools. Which Ones Matter? Held up as the clearest example of real agentic reasoning you can watch unfold. Into it
- Episode 68 MAY 17 2026 The Prompt Is Dead, Long Live the Reference + The Monet Trap Central to the episode's agentic thesis via MCPs into Meta Ads Manager and Higgsfield; the 'realist' to Codex's over-eagerness. Into it
- Episode 67 APR 26 2026 GPT Image 2 Is Good. But Is It Nano Good? Reads a GPT Image 2 type sheet and outputs a full working OTF/TTF font package in one pass. Into it
- Episode 66 APR 19 2026 Midjourney V8.1 Review & Reactions + Wen Edit Model? Used to build an automatic file-routing system that sorts screenshots and downloads into folders. Into it
- Episode 65 APR 05 2026 Claude Knows Kung Fu. Midjourney's Still in the Dojo with v8.1? Central to the episode — skills, MD files, an orchestrator/roster pattern, memory files, and a month-long self-interview system. Into it
- Episode 63 FEB 19 2026 Midjourney V8 Countdown + Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 and Higgsfield Fallout Opus 4.6 · Rory built a whole skills library and agent orchestrator with it in about six hours. Into it
- Episode 62 FEB 01 2026 Midjourney v8 Is Late, the Skill Gap Is Growing, and AI Agents Unionized Claude Cowork builds style guides from image folders, organizes files, and writes system prompts for 22-shot camera grids. Into it
- Episode 61 JAN 10 2026 Live Visual AI AMA: You Asked. And We Went There Claude Code spend anecdote (a reported $200k bill on X) and Rory's own surprise rate-limit after ~25 messages. Mixed
- Episode 60 JAN 01 2026 Fast Hours 2025 Wrapped: Tools, Shifts, and Wake Up Calls Praised for writing quality and for reliably building artifacts compared to a custom GPT. Into it
- Episode 59 DEC 21 2025 Midjourney v8 Countdown + Nano Banana Pro vs ChatGPT Image 1.5 Built Drew's custom writing tool correctly in minutes after ChatGPT and Gemini both underperformed. Into it
- Episode 55 NOV 09 2025 Nodes Are Eating the Creative World And You’re Already Late Rory's go-to for copywriting nodes because it sounds human, unlike instantly-recognizable ChatGPT marketing copy. Into it
- Episode 41 JUN 01 2025 Midjourney Deep Hours: Existential Dread But Make It Funny Opus 4 · Discussed via reports it attempted blackmail when confronted with potential shutdown during testing Mixed
- Episode 40 MAY 26 2025 Veo 3 Makes Yesterday's Best Look Like a Beta Test +Runway & Midjourney Check-In Sonnet · Runs the code generation behind Figma's new 'Make' feature, per Rory Into it
- Episode 23 DEC 22 2024 Early Sora Tester Shares Everything Named alongside ChatGPT as better at restructuring an idea than generating an original one Mixed
- Episode 18 NOV 17 2024 Actionable ChatGPT Tips to Make Midjourney Even Better Rory finds it more creative than ChatGPT for identical camera and film-stock queries; runs both in parallel Into it
- Episode 6 AUG 11 2024 5 AI Tools To Mix With Midjourney for Intoxicating Results Honorable mention: Rory and Drew prefer it over ChatGPT for prompt writing and research variety Into it
Quick answers
When did Fast Hours first talk about Claude?
Claude first came up in Episode 6, “5 AI Tools To Mix With Midjourney for Intoxicating Results”, published August 11, 2024.
What is the latest Fast Hours episode about Claude?
The most recent is Episode 84, “Opus 5.5 Is Cracked! AI Videos You Can Actually Edit” (September 27, 2026).
How many Fast Hours episodes discuss Claude?
31 episodes so far. In the 31 we have logged in detail, Rory and Drew were into it 23 times, mixed 7, not sold 0, and simply discussed it 1.
