Azeem Azhar

You're talking about looking at a thousand times more, which is a regime shift, right?

Even if the fundamental kind of economic organizational model remains the same, a thousand X is a regime shift, which means new behaviors emerge.

And some of the things that I see when I talk to businesses is, you know, a large part of them are doing the sorts of things we've discussed by automating data entry.

But what they've done is they've automated the horse.

They've automated the fact that they used to look at 10,000 pieces of data a day by humans and now they look at 10,000 by machines rather than saying, well, what if we looked at 10 billion and how would that change our business downstream from that?

I mean, you know, I feel that there's something there.

Oh, wow.

We've taken a big step back.

You've got to run around and get all your tacit knowledge written down and stuck in markdown files.

I mean, it's a really fantastic point and it shows how quickly the field is moving because no one was saying this a couple of years ago, right?

And your report came out before Claude Opus 4.5.

And Opus 4.5 has really changed the world, at least for certain early adopters.

It's particularly good at coding, for example, and it has absolutely cut into my sleep.

You can see my URA scores just collapse over the last month.

And I'm getting up at 4 a.m., I'm firing off a bunch of parallel agents, then I'm going for my walk, and then I'm coming back to see what they've done.

This year, we're recording this on January the 15th, I have written, or rather I've commanded Opus 4.5 to write about 10,000 lines of code per day.

So I'm up at about 150,000 lines of code according to some measure that I did.

I'm just curious about how that kind of capability jump changes the way you think people might behave based on what you had seen in this very, very extensive empirical study you conducted.

This is such an important point.

So let me go back to before Opus 4.5.