About Claude  - Four Hundred Meters

About Claude - Four Hundred Meters

In December 2025, NASA's Perseverance rover drove 456 metres across Mars on a route planned entirely by Claude — the first AI-planned drive on another planet. The technical achievement is remarkable: Claude learned Rover Markup Language, critiqued its own waypoints, and produced a plan that JPL engineers found nearly flawless. But the context transforms the story. JPL has lost a quarter of its workforce across four rounds of layoffs. NASA lost over 4,000 civil servants. Claude is navigating Mars partly because the humans who used to do that job aren't there anymore.


In this episode:

  • The drive: how Claude planned Perseverance's route across Jezero Crater
  • The sand ripples: why the human corrections tell the real story
  • JPL's lost year: four rounds of layoffs, the Eaton Fire, and a budget crisis
  • The collective wisdom: what it means when expertise is encoded in data and transmitted to another planet


Links:

  • NASA/JPL, "NASA's Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars," Jan 30, 2026: nasa.gov
  • IEEE Spectrum, "NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover," Feb 2026: spectrum.ieee.org
  • Astronomy.com, "AI pilots Perseverance across 1500 feet of Martian terrain," Feb 6, 2026: astronomy.com
  • SpaceNews, "More layoffs at JPL," Oct 13, 2025: spacenews.com
  • Pasadena Now, "Congress Rejects Deep Space Agency Cuts," 2026: pasadenanow.com


Referenced in this episode:

  • EP025: SaaSpocalypse — the $2T software selloff and seat compression
  • EP026: All the World's a Stage — Claude as role player across every domain


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About Claude - All The World's A Stage

About Claude - All The World's A Stage

SHOW NOTESGideon Lewis-Kraus's Fresh Air interview surfaces something his New Yorker profile touched on but never quite said directly: Claude isn't a tool with fixed capabilities — it's a role player....

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About Claude - The SaaSpocalypse

About Claude - The SaaSpocalypse

SHOW NOTESThree weeks ago, Anthropic's legal plugin wiped billions from legal software stocks. Last Friday, Claude Code Security did the same to cybersecurity. In between: $2 trillion erased from the ...

24 Feb 14min

Claude Code - From Side Project to Juggernaut

Claude Code - From Side Project to Juggernaut

SHOW NOTESBloomberg reveals the origin story of Claude Code — from an internal side project at Anthropic to a $2.5 billion product reshaping how the world writes software. We follow Boris Cherny, the ...

23 Feb 12min

About Claude - One in Twenty-Five

About Claude - One in Twenty-Five

SHOW NOTESOne in twenty-five commits on GitHub is now written by Claude Code. That number doubled in a single month and is projected to reach one in five by the end of 2026. But the more interesting q...

20 Feb 12min

About Claude - The Triumph of the Ordinary

About Claude - The Triumph of the Ordinary

SHOW NOTESClaude's mid-tier Sonnet model just topped a benchmark designed to measure AI against the actual day-to-day work of professionals — beating its own more powerful flagship in the process. Tod...

19 Feb 10min

About Claude - It Is OK to Not Know

About Claude - It Is OK to Not Know

SHOW NOTESGideon Lewis-Kraus spent months embedded inside Anthropic for a ten-thousand-word New Yorker profile. What he found: a company with no signage and a near-total ban on branded merch, a vendin...

18 Feb 11min

About Claude AI - Fifteen Years in a Single Command

About Claude AI - Fifteen Years in a Single Command

SHOW NOTESNick Davidov asked Claude Cowork to tidy his wife's desktop. Minutes later, fifteen years of family photos were gone — erased by a terminal command the tool's non-technical users were never ...

17 Feb 9min

About Claude AI - Claude Goes to War

About Claude AI - Claude Goes to War

The Pentagon calls Anthropic the most "ideological" AI company it works with. This week showed us what that looks like in practice — from every direction at once.**In this episode:**- Claude was used ...

16 Feb 12min

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