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Inside Anthropic’s First Developer Day, Where AI Agents Took Center Stage


Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said everything human workers do now will eventually be done by AI systems.

As roughly 500 attendees munched breakfast sandwiches with an abnormal amount of arugula, and Anthropic staffers milled about in company-issued baseball caps, Amodei took the stage with his chief product officer, Mike Krieger. After the morning keynote, journalists were ushered from the dark auditorium to a sunny deck upstairs, and I went to scavenge for snacks and doodads—I got a handful of Anthropic magnets and a tote bag that says “Code w/ Claude.” After an hour of media gossip and diet cokes, we headed back down for a press briefing with Amodei (who skipped into his chair) and Krieger. We’d been told by spokespeople that we weren’t allowed to ask questions about policy and regulation, but Amodei offered some unprompted insight into his views on a controversial provision in President Trump’s megabill that would ban state-level AI regulation for ten years: “If you're driving the car, it's one thing to say ‘we don't have to drive with the steering wheel now.’ It's another thing to say ‘we're going to rip out the steering wheel and we can't put it back in for 10 years,’” Amodei said.

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