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On 2026-06-23, Andrej Karpathy called Claude's interaction model the "third major…

2026-06-23 · 22:26 UTC ·@karpathy ·1 min read

Brief

Andrej Karpathy (2026-06-23) argues Claude exemplifies a new LLM UI/UX paradigm: a persistent, asynchronous team member that integrates org-wide tools and context. He warns this requires heavy engineering (tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security) to 'just work.' Anthropic's Claude Tag for Slack demonstrates the idea by letting Claude join channels and accept delegated tasks.

Why it matters

On 2026-06-23, Andrej Karpathy called Claude's interaction model the "third major redesign" of LLM UI/UX: first a website, then a desktop app, now a self-contained, persistent, asynchronous entity that integrates org-wide tools and context and can be addressed like a human team member.

Key details

  • Karpathy said making this work requires substantial engineering 'across tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security' so Claude can seamlessly join teams and help with 'a very large variety of workloads.'
  • Anthropic announced Claude Tag for Slack: Claude can join as a team member with access to selected channels and tools, and users can tag Claude to delegate tasks.
Source evidence

This is a new paradigm for interacting with Claude that is significantly more "inline" with all the other human activity org-wide. Once you do all of the under the hood engineering work to make this "just work" (e.g. across tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security, etc.), Claude basically joins the team in a seamless way - you can talk to it as you would talk to a person and it can help with a very large variety of workloads.

Imo this is the 3rd major redesign of LLM UIUX. The first paradigm was that the LLM is a website you go to, the second was that it is an app you download to your computer. This third one is that it is a self-contained, persistent, asynchronous entity with org-wide tools and context, working alongside teams of humans. It really takes a while to wrap your head around it, but it works and it is awesome.

Claude (@claudeai)

Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude.

In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.

Video

— https://nitter.net/claudeai/status/2069468693017268244#m