Paul Modderman

I'm thrilled to announce @nova_ai's $40M funding across a Series A led by @chemistry and a Seed led by @Accel, with participation from @conviction and SAP's venture arm SAP.iO.

congrats to the very special team @cognition (@ScottWu46 @stevenkplus1 @walden_yan) on their newest fundraise -- and their big deployments turns out competitive programming (and density of intelligence) does translate well to company-building

Another late-night Claude Code post. First, if you've just arrived here at the party, Claude Code is NOT the same thing as Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude.ai, nor any other Claudey thing. It is its own new experimental thing, also from Anthropic, makers of Claude and Other Claudey Things. Claude Code (CC) is a new coding assistant, one which, strangely enough, only runs in a terminal. Like an xterm, or a bash shell. Or any of six WSL shells that don't quite work. As a result, CC looks comically retro-futuristic: A late-1980s vision of what AI might become. And here we are. CC is what we all thought Devin was going to be last year. When Devin came out in December, people Muntz-laughed and moved on. But CC is a bona-fide AI software engineer. It deserves the title. And the funny thing is, they appear to have eschewed RAG completely, and just told Claude to go figure stuff out on its own. I am here to say that I am addicted to Claude Code. I can't put it down. I don't mean that figuratively. I mean I literally do not know how to put my computer down and go to sleep. Because Claude Code keeps doing stuff. It keeps solving massive problems, one after another. I throw larger and larger things at it, and it is unfazed. Chomp. Chomp. Chomp. It's like that old Assassin's Creed game, Rome maybe, when you had that big network of spies working for you towards the end of the game, and you just sent them out on missions while you sat on your fat ass, and it was absolutely just as much fun as "running" around the game world? Well I remember. This, is that. You know what? We can't be more than 2-3 months away from being able to say, "Yo, CC, just... go make tests. For everything. All the stuff I failed to test over the past 2 decades, go redeem me. Write tests for it all, and make sure they are clever and meaningful, and follow our testing patterns." And then you deposit like, I dunno, $5000 into its gaping maw. It just goes off for a week or two, doing its thang on a branch somewhere, mostly I/O bound waiting on your builds. And one day you get the email you've been waiting for. It says: "Send Money". After a few more weeks of this, it finally takes you from 10% to 90% test coverage, so that when you die you will be admitted into Good Engineer Heaven. All other coding assistants will follow CC's approach, in some form factor. They are all falling over themselves right now, as we speak. Because yes, to answer all your exact same FAQs: Claude Code is that much better. The race is on!

I wish more people were taking seriously the possibility that @ezraklein and the leadership of the AI labs are raising: that AGI is a real possibility in the near future. You don't have to buy it yourself, but leaders & policymakers need to consider the possibility it is true.

Interesting! Based on “The @AnthropicAI Economic Index” (millions of Claude conversations) AI usage is currently concentrated in software development and technical writing. TL;DR: 💻 Computer & Mathematical jobs dominate AI usage (37.2% of queries) despite being only 3.4% of workforce 📝 Writing/editing tasks are second most common (10.3% of queries) 🤝 AI augments human work (57%) more than automates it (43%) 💼 36% of jobs use AI for at least 25% of tasks, only 4% use it for 75%+ of tasks 💰 Mid-to-high wage jobs show highest AI adoption, both lowest and highest wage jobs show minimal usage 🔄 Tasks are being enhanced rather than jobs being fully automated 📊 Analysis based on real usage data from millions of Claude ai conversations 🎯 Usage concentrated in specific tasks rather than entire occupations

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