Description

Claude Code is the talk of the town, and of the Twitter. It has reached critical mass.

Suddenly, everyone is talking about how it is transforming their workflows. This includes non-coding workflows, as it can handle anything a computer can do. People are realizing the power of what it can do, building extensions and tools, configuring their setups, and watching their worlds change.

I’ll be covering that on its own soon. This covers everything else, including ChatGPT Health and the new rounds from xAI and Anthropic.

Table of Contents

1. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Even Rufus, Amazon's Choice.
2. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. They don’t believe you.

3. Language Models Have All The Fun. In glorious AI future, does game play you?
4. Huh, Upgrades. Claude Code 2.1.0, and JP Morgan using AI for its proxy advice.
5. On Your Marks. Yes, Meta pretty much did fraud with the Llama 4 benchmarks.
6. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. The year of doing real things?
7. Fun With Media Generation. The art of making people believe a human made it.
8. You Drive Me Crazy. Crazy productive.
9. They Took Our Jobs. Will [...]

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Outline:

(00:46) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(01:18) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(01:52) Language Models Have All The Fun

(02:57) Huh, Upgrades

(03:42) On Your Marks

(04:12) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(07:39) Fun With Media Generation

(07:55) You Drive Me Crazy

(10:10) They Took Our Jobs

(13:35) Get Involved

(14:08) Introducing

(16:46) In Other AI News

(18:31) Show Me the Money

(20:30) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

(21:32) Quiet Speculations

(24:25) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(27:32) AGI and Taxation

(31:29) Chip City

(31:46) The Week in Audio

(31:54) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(33:17) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(34:27) The Lighter Side

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First published:

January 8th, 2026

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fWJsqHXHBAEd8rq69/ai-150-while-claude-codes

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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