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But like in the past, he wouldn't be managing a team of robots.

He'd be managing a team of junior coders.

So doesn't this mean that this could take out like a whole layer of entry-level jobs for people?

So what's your sense of how disruptive this particular version of the technology is going to be in the workplace?

Like, do you think people are going to lose their jobs as this starts to become more widely used?

Here's Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei talking at a recent Wall Street Journal event.

In the last few days, Anthropic added new features to Cloud Code, including a tool that can review legal contracts and perform other industry-specific functions.

It's also released tools for finance and customer service.

Then, on Monday, OpenAI updated similar tools.

In response, investors started dumping shares of companies they worried could be most vulnerable to disruption.

The concern is that this could be an existential crisis for some companies.

Why pay for software solutions when you can now build your own far more easily using something like cloud code?

In one or five or 10 years, looking back on the development of AI, how big of a moment would you say the release of Cloud Code will be thought to be?

That's all for today, Wednesday, February 4th.

The Journal is a co-production of Spotify and The Wall Street Journal.

Additional reporting in this episode by Ben Dummit, Xavier Martinez, Bradley Olson, and Alexander Osipovich.

Thanks for listening.

See you tomorrow.

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It was a story about a man named Howard Rubin who'd been arrested on sex trafficking charges.