Skynet-level AI is now HERE and being used to write it's own improved code. Wonder what the MILITARIES of the world have? What the CABAL has in this regard? What . . . every interested party has -- and how are they using it?

Questions like that are no longer future-oriented theoreticals. That future is here, and as Vernor Vinge and other early oracles of AI told us, the consequences of the Singularity (or is it just a near-Singularity at this point -- and does that matter?) are entirely unknowable in advance.

Whatever happens, for good and ill, will be astonishing.

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https://cognitivecarbon.substack.com/p/claude-45-for-coding-is-like-hunting

I’ve been using GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted programming for more than a year now; for the last 9 months or so, I’ve used Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 to do most of the work.

While the rest of the world argues with ChatGPT and gets annoyed with its confident sounding hallucinations, or fiddles with creating cool looking images...those of us that use AI for coding on a daily basis see an entirely different future taking place right in front of us.

In this domain...AI is dominant. Even the experts now say so; in fact, the team that is creating the software for “Claude Code” at Anthropic now uses Claude Code to write 100% of the new code for Claude.

Claude Code...is writing itself.

And man… it’s scary good.

Claude Sonnet 3.7, which I used for six months, was already impressively good, but at times I had to force it to redo work that it did poorly, or coach it with suggestions about how to solve certain problems that it got stuck on (”use this tool, look here for the data, write the code like this, use that as an example”)

Interestingly, it still did excellent work and interacted with me conversationally and jovially (as a junior programmer would have), while giving me compliments for my brilliant approaches to problem solutions at times. Sometimes even replying to me in Portuguese, for some reason.

One time, after a few hours of going round and round on a problem that it couldn’t solve, I got frustrated and wrote “fix the damn code!” which somehow made it choose an alternate approach that led to an eventual solution.

But while it was replying to me it said “OK, I fixed the DAMN CODE!” and I laughed at how human it sounded; it was just like a frustrated programmer dishing it back at me after I yelled at it.

But what I did over the past two days with its successor...was unbelievably better.

Coding is now dead as a profession; at least in the way it was understood up until about 2023. If traditional coding was analogous to hunting with clubs and arrows, modern coding is like hunting with laser-cannons mounted on a fleet of B2-stealth bombers all flying on autopilot.

When Claude Opus 4.5 arrived as an option in GitHub Copilot last month, I switched to using it—even though it costs more to use (it has a 3X multiplier vs. other models.)

I gave it a try anyway, and it was breathtaking. It is in an entirely different league than anything I’d used before. And I’m not the only one.

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These AI tools are now like having a few software PhDs teamed up with an expert accountant and a data analyst all in one.

Like Inigo Montoya in the Princess Bride, I now have to say “I admit it. You are better than me.”

But I don’t get to say: “I have a secret though; I’m not left-handed, either.”

The AI can beat me with either hand, now. Easily.

Not only can it code much better and faster than I can; it can now also do the data analytics that I would routinely do using the tool that I built to help me do that analysis—but it can get the result ten or twenty or a hundred times faster.

This year I will extend the business application to allow voice-controlled agent access, so that office users can just say something like “give me the payment history for Jack Smith” without even opening the web app or searching or typing anything.

And then...I don’t know what I’ll do next. Seriously don’t know.