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Can Anthropic Control What It's Building?
February 12, 2026·41 min·3 clips
An Anthropic employee watches his coding work drop from 100% to 0% as Claude AI takes over his job.
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A sober look at Anthropic's safety-minded ambitions and the pressure to keep pace.
Anthropic is presented as a safety-minded AI company trying to build state-of-the-art models while keeping the risks in view. The strongest section tracks the strain between that caution and the need to stay competitive, especially the move by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and…
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