Wondering how reliant you've become on AI tools? Anthropic is giving you clarity.
On Thursday, Anthropic launched a new reflection dashboard in Claude's settings for the web or desktop app. The dashboard gives you a summary of how you've been using Claude, including key topics, your usage patterns, and the type of tasks you usually use it for, according to the blog post. You can access it at claude.ai/settings/reflect.
Beyond giving you greater insight into how you use the tool, there are also options users can take to modify their behavior, such as setting up quiet hours and nudges to take breaks. Periodically, the reflection dashboard will also present users with questions that prompt them to reflect on their AI usage, and users can then talk through it with the chatbot.
Soon, there will also be a view of how much time users have spent using Claude. It is now available in beta on the Free, Pro, and Max plans on web and desktop. It runs only when memory is on, as it needs to refer to past chats, so if, like me, you don't see it, it may be because you have that setting off. The reflection dashboard leaves out incognito chats and health integration content.
While the aim for a feature like this is good, helping users become aware of just how much of their lives they're off to AI, Anthropic isn't holding back on fueling AI usage either. On the same day, it announced a reset of the 5-hour weekly rate limits for all users of its Fable model, in response to high demand for its most advanced model and ahead of OpenAI's expected release of GPT-5.6.
Our Deeper View #
People have been over-reliant on their devices for decades, seduced by the entertainment and convenience sitting right in their pocket. AI's hook is different: it doesn't just entertain; it promises to make your life better and your work more productive. Whether that's genuine ambition or laziness in disguise, AI can now help with many tasks tied to knowledge work or human interaction. Just yesterday, I wrote about how many adults are turning to it for emotional support. The first step in recognizing a problem is seeing it quantified, but we've been here before. Screen time trackers proved that awareness alone rarely changes behavior. Still, even if this doesn't move the needle on healthy usage, there's value in knowing exactly what you're leaning on AI for, if you're willing to evaluate it honestly.