Duet makes Anthropic's chatbot finally feel faster than doing it yourself

Duet is the future of chatbot interaction

Duet makes Anthropic's chatbot finally feel faster than doing it yourself

A hands-on look at Duet, Anthropic's beta assistant, which beats Muse, Dot, and NanoClaw on speed, self-organizing channels, and per-channel access policies. It never asks for credentials, keeps replies short, and builds a hierarchy of concerns — a bird's-eye view up top, tighter access in channels, sandboxed sub-threads below. Beta glitches aside, the author says it's already replacing most of their AI workflows.

I don't want to be an Anthropic fanboy and it annoys me when they do things better than the competition. But they have done it again.

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2026-10-29