Labor is Now Free. Make Something.

Within the past few weeks, something changed in AI. Every release is better than the last, sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in a way that feels like placebo. But this time, with Anthropic Fable, it’s crossed a line into something that feels different than previous releases. The best way I can describe it is that Fable now feels like a full-time employee who is better than me at nearly everything, works harder than me, and can accomplish about 20x what I can in a day. It’s actually probably more than 20x, but I’m trying not to be hyperbolic. I remember when Claude first came out. I was on a Norwegian Fjord cruise with my friend Michael and we were so excited that we could copy and paste code snippets into Claude, it would suggest some changes, we’d copy and paste them back in the right places, and sometimes it would work. It was amazing. Now I wake up, look at my projects (because I gave Claude some instructions as I went to sleep and I want to see how they came out), give it a…