September 21, 2026
Claude is no co-founder: Gergely Oros compares AI to a keyboard
An engineer launched a project and called Claude his co-founder. Gergely Oros, author of Pragmatic Engineer, sees AI as a tool, not a partner.
Gergely Orosz
@gergelyorosz
I heard an engineer say of a project they built and launched: “my co-founder is Claude”. I do not understand people who anthropomorphize AI: it is just a tool. My keyboard is not my co-founder either, but a means to an end (though without it I would not have written @Pragmatic_Eng!).
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An engineer launched a project and called Claude his co-founder. Gergely Oros, author of Pragmatic Engineer, sees AI as a tool, not a partner.
Oros took his comparison to its conclusion: without a keyboard, there would be no newsletter, but he does not call it a co-author.
