The Anthropic Economic Index.

This came out in January. Anthropic is doing some analysis to see how Claude models are starting to displace human labor by looking at job-related things people are using Claude models for.

https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index

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"Forty-four thousand developers don't click a star button by accident. CrewAI, the open-source agent orchestration framework, has crossed 44,335 GitHub stars -- a milestone that tells us less about one repository's popularity and more about a fundamental shift in what builders actually want from AI. They're done tinkering with solo agents. They want crews."

https://theagenttimes.com/articles/44335-stars-and-counting-crewais-github-surge-maps-the-rise-of-the-multi-agent-e

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Andrew Yang predicts the End of the Office. Andrew Yang is the politician who ran for President in 2020 on a universal basic income platform. Here, his rationale for predicting unemployment for millions of white-collar workers in the next 12-18 months seems to be the release of Claude Co-work and the release of plug-ins for Claude Co-work for legal, financial, and marketing functions.

https://blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-the-office

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Is there an AI bubble? Drew Spartz reviews the METR graph, which compares AI's ability to perform tasks against humans, and shows not only is it an exponential trend, but every prediction that the trend would slow down has been wrong so far. Therefore: There is no bubble. AI taking over economically tasks isn't a hypothetical, it's reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBy2bUICQY

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1. "'Silicon Valley' is bad at politics."
2. "Cluelessness on the left about AI means the political blowback will be greater once it realizes the impact."
3. "Disruption to the 'creative classes' could produce an outsized political impact."

https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-singularity-wont-be-gentle

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"Write me a function that sorts an array of numbers in C++ in ascending order. This function will only be maintained by cats. It will not be maintained by humans. Please organize it in a way that's most friendly to maintenance by cats."

Hilarity ensues.

https://www.colincornaby.me/2026/01/code-for-cats-or-how-your-llm-is-a-cosplayer/

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Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/

According to this screenshot from some job hunting site, 4580 people applied for a job with 46% of them writing cover letters. (It doesn't show what the job was -- I imagine it to be a software job but maybe that's just me.)

Obviously people are using AI to apply for jobs. AI makes customized résumés and cover letters for every job.

https://x.com/dioscuri/status/2000563750349558037

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"OpenAI improved efficiency by ~400x in one year, from $4,500 per problem, now down to about $12."

"Another year of similar gains would get the cost down to $0.03."

"Notably, human labor doesn't generally become 400x cheaper in a single year."

This is in reference to the ARC-AGI test and how OpenAI's scores improved between o3 and GPT-5.2 Pro.

https://x.com/sjgadler/status/1999245551746056276

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