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“AI #127: Continued Claude Code Complications” by Zvi


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Due to Continued Claude Code Complications, we can report Unlimited Usage Ultimately Unsustainable. May I suggest using the API, where Anthropic's yearly revenue is now projected to rise to $9 billion?

The biggest news items this week were in the policy realm, with the EU AI Code of Practice and the release of America's AI Action Plan and a Chinese response.

I am spinning off the policy realm into what is planned to be tomorrow's post (I’ve also spun off or pushed forward coverage of Altman's latest podcast, this time with Theo Von), so I’ll hit the highlights up here along with reviewing the week.

It turns out that when you focus on its concrete proposals, America's AI Action Plan Is Pretty Good. The people who wrote this knew what they were doing, and executed well given their world model and priorities. Most of the concrete [...]

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Outline:

(02:17) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(06:36) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(09:52) Huh, Upgrades

(10:57) Unlimited Usage Ultimately Unsustainable

(12:38) On Your Marks

(12:56) Are We Robot Or Are We Dancer

(13:41) Get My Agent On The Line

(14:54) Choose Your Fighter

(16:13) Code With Claude

(20:54) You Drive Me Crazy

(22:54) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(23:50) They Took Our Jobs

(29:52) Meta Promises Superglasses Or Something

(38:12) I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars

(39:38) The Art of the Jailbreak

(40:05) Get Involved

(41:05) Introducing

(41:29) In Other AI News

(42:36) Show Me the Money

(47:53) Selling Out

(53:43) On Writing

(56:09) Quiet Speculations

(58:36) The Week in Audio

(59:42) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:07:57) Not Intentionally About AI

(01:08:55) Misaligned!

(01:10:27) Aligning A Dumber Than Human Intelligence Is Still Difficult

(01:11:06) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:13:27) Subliminal Learning To Like The Owls

(01:19:38) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:20:59) The Lighter Side

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First published:

July 31st, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GeTssgFDCvHDGAvhT/ai-127-continued-claude-code-complications

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