Utah gave 34 state devs Claude Code for four weeks
Boris Cherny says 71% of the developers in Utah's four-week Claude Code pilot reported saving 20 or more hours. Meanwhile Thariq's line about technical people thinking their skills are now useless became the argument of the day.
The big disagreement
Thariq: technical people think their skills are useless, non-technical people envy them
Thariq posted that technical people are sad and think their skills are now useless while non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better. He extended it to creative fields, saying he wants to sketch character concepts for his agent but does not have the language.
I wish so badly that I could sketch animation ideas and character concepts for my agent to flesh out instead of trying to find examples
Receipts
Utah gave Claude Code to 34 devs across 10 agencies, Cherny posts the numbers
Boris Cherny says Utah ran a four-week Claude Code pilot with 34 developers across 10 state agencies, and 71% reported saving 20 or more hours by the end. He also says 80% had a working environment within 30 minutes. The post came alongside Anthropic's expanded GSA OneGov agreement bringing Claude to government at 40% off.
80% had a working environment within 30 minutes, 71% reported saving 20+ hours by the end of the four-week pilot.
Model and agent watch
Theo needles the open weight crowd over a re-ranking, without running anything
Theo quote-posted an Artificial Analysis re-ranking from v4.3.2 to v5 with "terrible day to be an 'open weight models are just as good as Opus 5.5' guy". He shows no test and names no scores. The underlying post is a step-by-step visualization of models re-ranking across those benchmark versions.