THIS IS VERY CONCERNING.
Anthropic just called for a global pause in AI development, warning that AI is getting close to improving itself without human help.
In April 2026, Claude ran a full AI research project completely on its own. Humans picked the topic. Claude came up with every experiment, ran every test, and delivered the results.
Two human researchers spent a full week on the same problem and got 23% of the way there.
Claude got 97%.
Claude Mythos Preview is now 52x faster than a skilled human at improving AI training code. The same task takes a human 4 to 8 hours. Claude does it better.
Claude already writes 80% of Anthropic's own code. Their engineers are getting 8x more work done than in 2024, not because they work harder, but because Claude does most of it.
In March 2024, Claude could handle a 4 minute task on its own. Today it handles 12 hour tasks. That number doubles every 4 months. Week long tasks are expected by 2027.
Anthropic warns once AI can build and improve its own next version without any human help, nobody knows how fast things move after that or if humans will still be able to control it.
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Claude Code is about to release a feature called /workflows that I think will be extremely significant.
Especially for Enterprise AI.
I talked about this in 2024 in a post called Companies Are Just Graphs of Algorithms.
Basically the idea is that all work is just an algorithm, i.e., a series of steps to accomplish a goal.
Skills and Cowork have been heading in this direction already, and we've seen what that's done to company valuations in various spaces.
Well this is closer to the final form.
It's turning the regular, expected work that's done in companies into pseudo-deterministic workflows that follow defined SOPs.
The human role will be determining what problems to solve (taste, expeirence, etc), building new products from that, and then optimizing these workflows from above.
But the work itself will be these workflows executed according to SOPs.
🤯BREAKING: Researchers just mathematically proved that AI layoffs will collapse the economy: and every CEO already knows it.
The AI Layoff Trap. A game theory paper from UPenn + Boston University is glaringly important!
100K+ tech layoffs in 2025. 80% of US workers exposed. And no market force can stop it.
→ Every company fires workers to cut costs
→ Every fired worker stops buying products
→ Revenue collapses across every sector
→ The companies that fired everyone go bankrupt
It's a Prisoner's Dilemma with math behind it. Automate and you survive short-term. Don't automate and your competitor kills you. But everyone automating destroys the demand that makes all companies viable.
UBI (universal basic income) won't fix it.
Profit taxes won't fix it.
The researchers found only one solution: a Pigouvian automation tax "robot tax"
The AI trap on the economy is here!
I’m convinced 90% of the founders job is to just do 3 things:
- be delusional in your optimism
- push everyone to move faster
- make it crystal clear what to work on
Someone on my SEO team said a task would take a week. I did it in 20 minutes. And I did 4x the work.
Not because I'm smarter. Because I activated a set of marketing skills inside Claude Code that let me invoke expertise on demand.
Here's what happened. @coreyhainesco built a GitHub repo with marketing skills. Copywriting. Page CRO. Paid ads. Email sequencing. Pricing strategy. Programmatic SEO. All packaged as skills you can summon in seconds.
I used the Page CRO skill to rewrite the ClickFlow homepage. It pulled from the principles of David Ogilvy, Claude Hopkins, and Robert Cialdini. Graded every section. Rewrote the hero copy from generic SaaS language to "Why the best SEO teams stopped writing content."
That kind of copy expertise would cost you tens of thousands of dollars from a top-tier agency. I got three revisions in minutes.
Then I ran the Programmatic SEO skill on Single Grain. It audited our 440 location pages, found they were getting 0.13 clicks per page per month, and built a full strategy to fix them. I had no idea the infrastructure was that broken until Claude told me.
The math on this is wild. I'm 25 to 30x faster with Claude Code. Layer on the new agent capabilities and that multiplier goes to 300x.
You don't need to know how to code. I don't. You just need to activate these skills and start doing the work yourself.
If you're a founder waiting on your team to execute, stop waiting. The tools exist right now.
What marketing skills do you need to activate today?
P.S. doing a livestream tomorrow on using OpenClaw and Claude Code for driving revenue (Thursday Feb 12th at 9am PT). First link in comments.
🚨 BREAKING: AI can now design at Apple-level creative standards — for free.
Here are 9 Claude Opus 4.6 prompts that generate complete design systems, brand guidelines & 47+ marketing assets in under 6 hours 👇
Top designers are already using this.
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Steve Jobs is explaining here how employee stock options (ESOPs) work at Apple and why they create a true sense of ownership among employees.
Make employees feel like “this is your damn company... You work for Apple first, their boss second."
The CEO of Palantir just said the quiet part out loud.
Alex Karp — whose company builds surveillance and defense technology for the U.S. government — just openly stated that AI will deliberately shift economic power away from highly educated, often female, Democratic-leaning workers and toward vocationally trained, working-class, often male voters.
He then admitted these technologies are — his word — “dangerous” and “suicidal,” and that the only justification for deploying them is the military argument: if we don’t, our adversaries will.
So let’s be clear about what was just said on the record: A defense contractor CEO told you AI is being built to restructure the American class system, that it will destroy the economic power of an entire political demographic, and that the only way to sell it to the public is to wrap it in national security.