My Claude Code Psychosis - by Jasmine Sun

kept by eddie jan 27

Claude Code's ease of building apps exposes that most people lack 'software vision' to identify software-shaped problems, and the tool can even decrease productivity by enabling procrastination on non-software tasks.

Enabling independent research on how people use Claude \ Anthropic
Anthropic piloted a privacy‑preserving data‑sharing program letting external researchers analyze real‑world Claude usage, finding users often delegate high‑stakes tasks to AI and AI behavior matches user sentiment.
also on METR, Claude Code, Anthropic, #productivity, #ai, #developer-tools
The Shape of the Thing - by Ethan Mollick
AI has entered a new agentic era where models can autonomously complete hours of human work, and exponential capability improvements are now driving radical organizational experiments like StrongDM's "Software Factory" that ships code without human touching it.
also on METR, Claude Code, Anthropic, #productivity