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   - "the progression from autocomplete to autonomous agent teams follows a capability-matched escalation where premature adoption creates more chaos than value.md"
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+### Additional Evidence (confirm)
+*Source: [[2026-02-13-noahopinion-smartest-thing-on-earth]] | Added: 2026-03-19*
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+Smith's observation that 'vibe coding' is now the dominant paradigm confirms that coding agents crossed from experimental to production-ready status, with the transition happening rapidly enough to be culturally notable by Feb 2026.
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 # Coding agents crossed usability threshold in December 2025 when models achieved sustained coherence across complex multi-file tasks

entities/ai-alignment/anthropic.md

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Frontier AI safety laboratory founded by former OpenAI VP of Research Dario Amod
 - **2026-03** — Claude Code achieved 54% enterprise coding market share, $2.5B+ run-rate
 - **2026-03** — Surpassed OpenAI at 40% enterprise LLM spend
 - **2026-03** — Department of War threatened to blacklist Anthropic unless it removed safeguards against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Anthropic refused publicly and faced Pentagon retaliation.
+- **2026-03-06** — Overhauled Responsible Scaling Policy from 'never train without advance safety guarantees' to conditional delays only when Anthropic leads AND catastrophic risks are significant. Raised $30B at ~$380B valuation with 10x annual revenue growth. Jared Kaplan: 'We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models.'
 ## Competitive Position
 Strongest position in enterprise AI and coding. Revenue growth (10x YoY) outpaces all competitors. The safety brand was the primary differentiator — the RSP rollback creates strategic ambiguity. CEO publicly uncomfortable with power concentration while racing to concentrate it.
 

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+title: "You are no longer the smartest type of thing on Earth"
+author: Noah Smith
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+---
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+# You are no longer the smartest type of thing on Earth
+
+Noah Smith's Feb 13 newsletter on human disempowerment in the age of AI. Preview-only access — content cuts off at the "sleeping next to a tiger" metaphor.
+
+Key content available: AI surpassing human intelligence, METR capability curve, vibe coding replacing traditional development, hyperscaler capex ~$600B in 2026, tiger metaphor for coexisting with superintelligence.
+
+Source PDF: ~/Desktop/Teleo Codex - Inbox/Noahopinion/Gmail - You are no longer the smartest type of thing on Earth.pdf

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 # You are no longer the smartest type of thing on Earth
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 Key content available: AI surpassing human intelligence, METR capability curve, vibe coding replacing traditional development, hyperscaler capex ~$600B in 2026, tiger metaphor for coexisting with superintelligence.
 
 Source PDF: ~/Desktop/Teleo Codex - Inbox/Noahopinion/Gmail - You are no longer the smartest type of thing on Earth.pdf
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+
+## Key Facts
+- Hyperscaler capex reached approximately $600B in 2026
+- METR capability curves show AI systems performing at human expert levels on complex tasks as of early 2026
+- Vibe coding has become the dominant software development paradigm by Feb 2026

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 # Superintelligence is already here, today
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 Key insight: AI may never exceed humans at intuition or judgment, but doesn't need to. The combination of human-level reasoning with superhuman computation is already transformative.
 
 Source PDF: ~/Desktop/Teleo Codex - Inbox/Noahopinion/Gmail - Superintelligence is already here, today.pdf
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+
+## Key Facts
+- METR capability curves show steady climb across cognitive benchmarks with no plateau as of March 2026
+- Approximately 100 problems transferred from mathematical conjecture to solved status with AI assistance
+- Terence Tao describes AI as complementary research tool that changed his workflow
+- Ginkgo Bioworks with GPT-5 compressed 150 years of protein engineering work to weeks
+- Noah Smith defines 'jagged intelligence' as human-level language/reasoning combined with superhuman speed/memory/tirelessness

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   - "nation-states will inevitably assert control over frontier AI development because the monopoly on force is the foundational state function and weapons-grade AI capability in private hands is structurally intolerable to governments"
   - "AI lowers the expertise barrier for engineering biological weapons from PhD-level to amateur which makes bioterrorism the most proximate AI-enabled existential risk"
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 # If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?
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 Enrichments to existing claims: Dario's Claude misalignment admission strengthens emergent misalignment claim; full Thompson argument enriches government designation claim.
 
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+
+## Key Facts
+- Anthropic objected to 'any lawful use' language in Pentagon contract negotiations
+- Dario Amodei deleted detailed bioweapon prompts from public discussion for safety reasons
+- Alex Karp (Palantir CEO) argues AI companies refusing military cooperation while displacing workers create nationalization risk
+- Ben Thompson argues monopoly on force is the foundational state function that defines sovereignty
+- Noah Smith concludes: 'most powerful weapons ever created, in everyone's hands, with essentially no oversight'