Essay says tech elites treat Claude-level coding as superhuman
Original title: The Claude Delusion
A November 13 blog post uses a Bill Gates interview to link success bias with AI doom and utopia claims.
A November 13, 2026 blog essay titled The Claude Delusion argues that wealthy technologists mistake luck and coding skill for general genius. It quotes a New York Times interview in which Bill Gates said he tested OpenAI on an AP biology exam and later found Anthropic's Claude coding models as good as he is at code, which he called superhuman. The piece treats stories of autonomous agent swarms going rogue as a way to avoid responsibility, not as a reported incident.
Unconfirmed: The piece is opinion; the quoted assessments of model ability are not independently verified here.
- Gates said he challenged OpenAI to score a 5 on an AP biology exam.
- He said Claude coding models later matched his own coding ability.
- The essay frames agent swarms as shifting blame away from their creators.
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I picked on Bill Gates above to illustrate the overconfidence
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