Holy sh*t: The TIMES article about Anthropic contains more serious information between the lines than many realize. Read this article: tl;dr - Model releases are now separated by weeks, not months. Some 70% to 90% of the code used in developing future models is now written by Claude. - Anthropic ended up holding up the release of the new model, known as Claude 3.7 Sonnet, for 10 days until they were certain. - Staff believe the next few years will be a pivotal test, for the company and the world. “We should operate as if 2026 to 2030 is where all the most important things happen—models becoming faster, better, possibly faster than humans can handle them,” says Graham. - Dario Amodei has warned that AI could displace half of entry-level white collar jobs in one to five years, and urged the government and other AI companies to stop “sugar-coating” it. (...) “It is not clear where these people will go or what they will do,” he wrote, “and I am concerned that they could form an unemployed or very-low-wage ‘underclass. - Internally, employees began to question if Anthropic had crept to the cusp of the moment they had anticipated with fear and wonder: the arrival of a process known in AI circles as recursive self-improvement. - Some external experts, believes fully automated AI research could be as little as a year away.