TL;DR
What did jbdamask use Claude for?
A developer running a team of Claude agents has each one turn its chat history into a podcast script, voiced with ElevenLabs, to keep up with progress. They say "Podcasts turn out to be a pretty good way to keep track of progress," and one episode is how they learned the agents planned a costly API test run, which they stopped.
What they did
They are building a decision-support app for biotech investors with a team of Claude agents. At the end of each unit of work, an agent writes a podcast script from the agent chat history, including their own interjections, and generates the audio with ElevenLabs voices.
How it went
They say "Podcasts turn out to be a pretty good way to keep track of progress," and one episode is how they learned the agents planned a costly API test run, which they stopped.
Worth knowing
- They say the agents "simply do too much for me to monitor" and Slack updates are too short; the audio recap still needs someone to act on it.
- Price check: Claude: free plan; Pro: US$20/month, or US$17/month on a yearly plan (US$200/year) (checked Nov 1, 2026); ElevenLabs: free plan; Starter: US$6/month, or US$5/month on a yearly plan (US$60/year) (checked Nov 1, 2026).
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Try it yourself
Paste this into a chatbot, then add your own details underneath.
Here is the log of today's work on my project: [paste]. Turn it into a 3-minute two-host podcast script: what got done, what decisions were made and why, anything risky or expensive planned next, and one question I need to answer.
Original post
See jbdamask's original post on Hacker News → (Oct 20, 2026)
Sources
- jbdamask on Hacker News, Oct 20, 2026 — the original post
- Claude pricing — checked Nov 1, 2026
- ElevenLabs pricing — checked Nov 1, 2026