February 7, 20261 min

The Anthropic Hive Mind

But I am starting to suspect they feel genuinely sorry for a lot of companies. Because we’re not taking this stuff seriously enough. 2026 is going to be a year that just about breaks a lot of companies, and many don’t see it coming. Anthropic is trying to warn everyone, and it’s like yelling about an offshore earthquake to villages that haven’t seen a tidal wave in a century.

Extremely quotable discussion from Steve Yegge of what the vibes are currently like at Anthropic, which is actually a discussion of what "golden ages" at companies are like and how they come to be. His reasoning: when there is way more work than people; when there are more people than there is work, golden ages end.

There’s also a really good discussion of what companies might look like post-AI, which I guess means now, but also it means when more companies have figured out that it means now.