Claude Duet seen as the future of chatbot interaction

An author unaffiliated with Anthropic argues Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant harness that feels more useful than tedious. It prioritizes fast responses, reportedly runs on Opus 5.5, auto-creates and manages channels that can reference each other, and scopes GitHub repo access per channel without requesting credentials.

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