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Builders’ Picks | 2026-04-17

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Claude, Anthropic’s Official AI Account

Three major updates: first, Claude Design can read codebases and design files to establish and automatically apply team design systems, maintaining brand consistency across projects. Second, Claude for Word is available on Pro and Max, supporting Opus 4.7 in Word. Third, the Claude Code Hackathon returns as a global event around Opus 4.7, offering $100,000 in API credits, with registration closing this Sunday.

Alex Albert, Anthropic Researcher

Albert announced fixes for bugs encountered on Opus 4.7’s first day and thanked users for their patience. He also observed that each Claude model has a different internal judgment about how helpful to be, promising more explanation of Opus 4.7’s behavior.

Aaron Levie, Box CEO

Levie predicted agents will use software 100 times more often than humans. Enterprise platforms must therefore become headless and work with agents inside and outside any platform or risk elimination. This core view of enterprise architecture’s transformation received 1576 likes.

Kevin Weil, OpenAI VP of Science

Weil announced his last day at OpenAI as OpenAI for Science was dissolved and integrated into other research groups. Over two years, he moved from chief product officer to a research-team role and expressed gratitude for the experience. Before departing, he praised Codex’s new computer use as “shockingly good.”

Ryo Lu, Cursor Designer

Lu revealed “Baby Glass,” an internal tool he and @flowstated are developing. Cursor’s new prototyping environment lets designers quickly imagine, combine, and test ideas in code, integrated with shared components used in Cursor itself—a code-prototyping tool for designers.

Garry Tan, Y Combinator CEO

Tan announced forthcoming Gemini Live end-to-end testing in GBrain Voice, built personally with AI tools and planned for open source. He also released several GBrain security fixes and /ship skill reliability improvements, continuing his open-source toolchain’s iteration.

Google Labs

Google Labs expanded the Flow family with Google Flow Music, formerly ProducerAI, a standalone site for making, sharing, and remixing music. It continues the Flow AI-creation lineup and received 1204 likes.

Dan Shipper, Every CEO

Shipper’s team performed a broad Opus 4.7 vibe check across coding, writing, spreadsheets, and more. They invited Anthropic researcher Alex Albert to explain Claude models’ internal differences in helpfulness, viewing this as essential to understanding behavior.

Peter Yang, Roblox Product Manager

Yang suggested an evaluation technique: when building a skill, launch a separate eval agent to judge the first agent’s output yes or no, triggering retries when conditions are unmet and creating a self-checking loop. He also requested easy Markdown viewing and editing in Claude and Codex apps, so users need not switch tools to manually refine the last 10% of instructions.

Amjad Masad, Replit CEO

Masad demonstrated converting a web app to iOS for under $10 using Replit. He also praised a new feature for anticipating small but important improvements users might want.

Peter Steinberger, OpenClaw Founder

Steinberger shared ClawCon Michigan photos showing nearly 2000 attendees, calling it a “weird lobster cult” as OpenClaw’s offline community grows rapidly. He also shared photos from a Vancouver community event.

Matt Turck, FirstMark Capital VC

Turck summarized Anthropic Labs’ recent progress as an “epoch-defining run,” naming Claude Code, Skills, Claude Cowork, and Claude Design.

Podcasts

No Priors — Scaling Global Organizations in the Age of AI with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott, one of enterprise software’s most storied executives, uses his experiences to discuss leadership, enterprise AI strategy, and his forceful rejection of “SaaSpocalypse.”

Key takeaway: “AI thinks, workflow acts” is McDermott’s central insight into AI’s relationship with platforms. Rebuilding enterprise platforms from scratch with LLMs costs 10 times as much as continuing to use existing ones.

McDermott began at 16 by buying a Long Island deli for $5500, or $7000 including interest, paid in installments. His most important lesson was that everything depends on truly understanding customers and keeping them returning. He brought this customer focus through Xerox, SAP, and ServiceNow.

His framework is clear: LLMs think and propose solutions in milliseconds, but do not close tickets. Enterprise value requires cross-department workflows. A compensation issue may involve HR, finance, legal, compliance, and multiple databases before resolution—the value of platforms like ServiceNow. “AI thinks, workflow acts.”

Against SaaSpocalypse, he offered cost analysis. Existing SaaS contains complex business logic and integrations. AI rebuilding requires counting platform reconstruction, human opportunity costs, and GPU infrastructure and tokens for running LLMs. For moderately complex applications, he concludes, rebuilding costs more than 10 times as much as using the existing platform. More importantly, enterprises forgive human mistakes but not software errors, a crucial procurement asymmetry.

On leadership, he believes AI makes human connections more important. Change is unsettling but exhilarating: “This is the slowest it will ever be; it only gets faster.” Leaders should learn AI proactively. ServiceNow prepared a white paper helping CEO customers explain “where LLMs end and platforms begin” and articulate strategy to boards rather than remain passively anxious.

His talent theory is that everyone has more potential than they recognize; the key is giving people a chance instead of waiting for genius. This matters especially with AI: tools strengthen, but leaders helping people realize their potential remain scarce.