Ben Cohen
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Now, over the past two months, he has not written a single line of code by hand himself.
100% of his code is coming from cloud code.
His little team of agents.
crazy and also profound about this, which is that he is no longer a coder.
He is a manager of like this fleet of robot coders that are working on his behalf.
It's clear that there are certain professions and occupations where people are going to be able to take advantage of this, and the implications of that are very uncertain right now.
What the productivity implications are, what the workforce displacement implications are, I don't think we really know what they're going to be yet.
What we do know is that there are fields where this is coming if it's not already here.
And the thing that is both thrilling and like deeply terrifying, as Joanna has written many times over the past few years, this is the worst and dumbest that these AI models are ever going to be, right?
Like what we are playing with now is only going to get better in the days and weeks and especially months and years to come.
Also, OpenAI had a chat-shippy team moment.
Google really had the Gemini 3 nano-banana moment a few months ago.
This is that moment for Anthropic.
This is the breakout moment for one of the top frontier labs that, at this time next year, might very well be one of the most valuable companies in the world.
I was prepared to make a special ice cream today to memorialize and celebrate the life of Renee Good.
But now that Alex's murder makes it clear that the murder of Renee and the government's lies were not a mistake, but standard operating procedure, I just don't have it within me.
We all live in Minneapolis now, because Minneapolis is only the beginning of what they have in mind.
They're coming for anyone, anywhere, who doesn't submit.
A brazen, arrogant, masked, militarized force loyal only to Trump and immune from prosecution.