Comment by tptacek

Anthropic has obvious advantages and I'm not saying there's a level playing field (they also have the financial resources of a mid-sized industrialized nation). I'm saying that there's an absolute limit to how much work you could personally do on a frontier model, and that limit doesn't exist for agents; you could realistically clever your way out ahead of Claude Code --- who knows? We've only had these things working for real for a year.