I’ve had a number of thoughts around Claude Code in the last couple of days. I’ve especially been trying to put into words a feeling of how big this is, and why I think so.
Here’s what I’ve come up with:
- Claude Code is as big a jump as ChatGPT was in 2022
- ChatGPT was the ChatGPT for knowledge, and Claude Code is the ChatGPT for action
- Claude Code is as good as it is because of scaffolding, not model IQ
- I think Claude Code is proto-AGI, meaning it just needs more scaffolding, tools, and long-term memory and it’ll be able to replace an average knowledge worker
I was having trouble putting this into words, and I think the above captures it.
Basically, it’s as big as ChatGPT—but for action instead of knowledge.
AGI? Really?
I use the “AGI” word for a very specific reason: being able to replace human workers.
CC is already doing the work of a knowledge worker. And in fact way more and way better. But:
- It can only do so many tasks
- It only has so many tools
- Its memory is only so large
- It can’t incorporate its entire career of knowledge into the next task
- Etc.
So it basically has tools and memory / knowledge management limitations. But, fundamentally, it’s doing the work of someone in a corporate type job already.
This is huge to me, because to get to an actual AI product/service that can replace an employee I don’t think requires some new, theoretical advance in AI.
What we have already just needs more wiring and plumbing. And I think Claude Code has made this very clear.
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