Claude Duet Is Here! Everything You NEED To Know
Peter Yang walks through Claude Duet, Anthropic's new personal agent, after early access. He shows the morning brief, dashboards and email triage he built with it, where it falls short, and how it compares to rivals.
The gist
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Yang calls Duet the most proactive agent he has tried, because a default check-in runs every 3 hours from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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A learn-how-I-write skill read 33 emails, 89 Slack messages, 47 DMs and 11 docs to build a style guide for drafting his replies.
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From a one-line prompt, Duet built a YouTube report showing personal AI agent videos are his breakout topic and solo videos beat guest episodes.
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Duet failed to book an Uber because of a human check, and Yang says he can't see its browser or add his local skills.
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Yang still ranks GrokBot first for its X research, praises Muse for calling businesses, and finds ChatGPT's agent slower, though Claude is his main model.
Peter Yang uses it
"Spoiler alert, I think Grokbot is still my favorite agent right now. Basically, I treat each bot as an employee and the free X integration that Grokbot has is really awesome for market research. The downside right now is that Grokbot's email doesn't actually work that well."
▶ Play at 14:1219 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Claire Vo, and This Week in Startups.
See all on the GrokBot page
Peter Yang uses it
"The next one is Muse, which is free. And Muse is also incredible. I think it's super well-designed, probably the most well-designed out of all the personal agents. And it has a killer feature in that it can call US businesses for you... I've also made calls before to negotiate..."
▶ Play at 14:4211 creators recommend it, including Claire Vo, Kevin Rose, and Riley Brown.
See all on the Muse page
Peter Yang uses it
"Overall I would say I still prefer Grokbot as number one. I still use it every day along with ChatGPT and Claude for individual work streams."
▶ Play at 16:24145 creators recommend it, including John Coogan, Riley Brown, and Dan Shipper.
See all on the ChatGPT page
Peter Yang uses it
"If Duet becomes more robust after it exits research preview, I can see myself using it a lot because right now Claude is my main harness and model and this has a ton of memory about how I like to work."
▶ Play at 16:34216 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Chris Koerner, and This Week in Startups.
See all on the Claude pageWhat they recommend · 5 picks
"Spoiler alert, I think Grokbot is still my favorite agent right now. Basically, I treat each bot as an employee and the free X integration that Grokbot has is really awesome for..."
"The next one is Muse, which is free. And Muse is also incredible. I think it's super well-designed, probably the most well-designed out of all the personal agents. And it has a ..."
"Last but not least we have Claude Duet, which in my opinion is the most proactive out of the box. I know Anthropic has been working on this for a while and the product has also ..."
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