45 features in 3 months: Anthropic admits AI pace is too fast

The AI industry may be moving so fast it's starting to exhaust the very people it's meant to help. Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, has publicly acknowledged that the relentless pace of new feature releases is creating genuine stress for everyday users and that its own product roadmap is part of the problem.

The matter was brought up by Claude Code Product Manager and Anthropic Cowork Cat Wu during an interview on Lenny's Podcast. According to Business Insider, she expressed that people feel forced to look at their social media accounts every day simply to stay relevant. "There's more we can do to help people feel less like they're on this ever increasingly fast treadmill," Wu said, per a Business Insider report.

This trend is becoming increasingly common. In the pre-AI era, updates came in regular intervals, whether quarterly or annually. Today, however, the frequency of these updates has increased to weekly intervals, often driven by actions from competitors.

The statistics support Wu’s fears. Anthropic had more than 45 updates during the first quarter of 2025 alone, one feature every other day. According to Wu, the frequency has even created confusion within the company itself. "With AI moving so quickly and with so many ideas that we need to test out, we do sometimes have features that overlap with each other," she said.

That rapid rollout hasn't been without cost. Users recently reported a noticeable drop in Claude's response quality, a complaint Anthropic attributed to technical issues rather than intentional changes, though the incident highlighted how quickly trust can erode when updates arrive faster than users can evaluate them.

Wu's proposed solution isn't to slow down; it's to shift how tools communicate change to users. Rather than expecting people to hunt for updates on X (formerly Twitter) or third-party tech blogs, she envisions tools that proactively teach users what's new and relevant to them.

"I would love people to feel like they can just open these tools. The tools will educate or teach them what they want to know," she said.