Ryan Knudson

Ben and Joanna wrote all the words in the article and the chat messages between them.

But Claude wrote all the code.

And it did it really, really fast.

They weren't as impressed as we were.

Coming up, we talk to one of those humans who knows how to write code and contemplate what this all means for people's jobs.

Brian Witten is a computational journalist at the Wall Street Journal.

Brian is one of the people Joanna and Ben showed their code to.

What did you think when Joanna and Ben brought you this code and this little project they've been working on?

What was your reaction?

There were a few bugs.

So if you were to give it a percentage of just going from, like, was it 100% done, 90% done?

How would you give it a grade?

Hmm.

Say 80%, it was pretty close.

80% sounds like a lot.

Still, the process was a lot more efficient.

I asked Brian, the computational journalist, if Claude Code made him worried about his job.

Not really.

Brian thinks it will have an impact on jobs, but it's unclear exactly what that impact will be.

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