Why AI Makes It Harder to Ship Good Products
From Small Efforts - with Sean Sun and Andrew Askins by Sean Sun and Andrew Askins
April 22, 2026 · 50 min · Episode 72
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges in AI product development, focusing on developer complaints about Claude's performance and the implications of AI on coding workflows.
Andrew and Sean dig into Clawdgate, the growing developer complaints that Anthropic has been quietly throttling Claude's default thinking power after locking in enterprise deals. They also get into Sean's Salvo orchestration system, why waterfall specs do not work even with AI, and why scope creep is the silent killer hiding inside every AI coding workflow. Links: Andrew’s Twitter: @AndrewAskins Andrew's website: https://www.andrewaskins.com/ MetaMonster: https://metamonster.ai/ Slackletter: https://slackletter.com/ Sean’s Twitter: @seanqsun Miscreants: http://miscreants.com/ Margins: http://margins.so/ Sean's website: https://seanqsun.com/ For more information about the podcast, check out https://www.smalleffortspod.com/ . Transcript: 00:00.76 Sean What is up? My phone is gigantic. 00:02.84 Andrew I want to throw Claude out of the window. 00:06.04 Sean Why? What's going on? How dare you speak about my boy, Claude? 00:13.07 Andrew Have you seen all the chatter online? Like there, I don't know if it's like just my feed or what, but I'm seeing a bunch of people complaining about Claude getting worse. 00:15.63 Sean Yeah. 00:23.62 Andrew Like, uh, and like the, the hypothesis I've…
People in this episode
Hosts: Sean Sun, Andrew Askins
Topics covered
- AI development
- product management
- scope creep
- developer complaints
- coding workflows
Keywords
- AI
- Claude
- Anthropic
- product development
- scope creep
- coding workflows
- Salvo orchestration
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Anthropic, MetaMonster, Slackletter, Miscreants, Margins
Products: Claude, Salvo orchestration system
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