Anthropic: Our AI just created a tool that can ‘automate all white collar work’, Me:

the CEO of one of the major AI labs predicted last year that by around now 100% of the code written by that company would be produced by one of their AI models. Next up within 2026 would be all other knowledge work and a new tool released by Anthropic in the last couple of days seems to back that up. It's called Claude Co-work. Not only has it gone omega viral at 42 million views for its ability to automate non-coding tasks, the tool itself was produced within Clawude code powered by their latest frontier model, Claude Opus 4.5, thereby seeming to justify the prediction that essentially all of the code would by now be written by AI.

So wait, if they got that right, does that mean that Anthropic and those like Schultto Douglas are correct when they say that in 2026, this year the same will be true of automating all white collar work. >> The most striking thing about next year is that the other forms of knowledge work are going to experience what software engineers are feeling right now where they went from typing, you know, most of their lines of code at the beginning of the year to typing barely any of them at the end of the year. I think of this as the Claude code experience, but for all forms of knowledge work. I also think that probably continual learning gets solved in a satisfying way.

>> Well, I've been using Claude code for quite a while and yes, have been playing about with the new Claude co-work. And for me, those predictions are just not true. But so many of us might then throw the baby out with the bath water and miss out on some pretty crazy productivity gains. So, I'm going to show why we shouldn't underestimate the gains to be had either.

Then, for those who want to go a bit deeper, I'm going to end with the why. Why can models produce genius like seeing tiny bugs in large code bases and writing for me powerful poems but also still fail at such basic tasks? No, I don't mean how many A's in the word orange. Although surprisingly GPT 5.2 still can't get that right.

No, I mean why are they still sometimes so brittle memorizing that Tom Smith's wife is Mary Stone but not deducing that ...