LessWrong posts by zvi
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“AI #150: While Claude Codes” by Zvi
36 minutes Posted Jan 8, 2026 at 3:01 pm.
They Took Our Jobs. Will [...] ---Outline:
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
Language Models Have All The Fun
Huh, Upgrades
On Your Marks
Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
Fun With Media Generation
You Drive Me Crazy
They Took Our Jobs
Get Involved
Introducing
In Other AI News
Show Me the Money
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
Quiet Speculations
The Quest for Sane Regulations
AGI and Taxation
Chip City
The Week in Audio
Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
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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
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Even Rufus, Amazon's Choice.
Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. They don’t believe you.
Language Models Have All The Fun. In glorious AI future, does game play you?
Huh, Upgrades. Claude Code 2.1.0, and JP Morgan using AI for its proxy advice.
On Your Marks. Yes, Meta pretty much did fraud with the Llama 4 benchmarks.
Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. The year of doing real things?
Fun With Media Generation. The art of making people believe a human made it.
You Drive Me Crazy. Crazy productive.
They Took Our Jobs. Will [...] ---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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January 8th, 2026
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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fWJsqHXHBAEd8rq69/ai-150-while-claude-codes
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