"Recently, more people have started to play around with tools such as Claude Code. The product, made by the start-up Anthropic, is "agentic," meaning it can do all sorts of work a human might do on a computer. Some academics are testing Claude Code's ability to autonomously generate papers; others are using agents for biology research. Journalists have been experimenting with Claude Code to write data-driven articles from scratch,"
"Unlike ChatGPT, which has a free tier, agentic tools such as Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex typically cost money, and can be intimidating to set up. I run Claude Code out of my computer's terminal, an app traditionally reserved for programmers, and which looks like something a hacker uses in movies. It's also not always obvious how best to prompt agentic bots: A sophisticated user might set up teams of agents that message one another as they work,"
Many Americans live in parallel AI universes: mainstream exposure centers on ChatGPT, Google's AI overviews, and social-media clutter. Tech hobbyists use agentic systems like Claude Code to automate complex computer work, collapsing months of effort into hours or even an afternoon. Academics test autonomous paper generation and biology applications; journalists prototype data-driven articles and software products rapidly. The quality of AI-generated outputs remains uncertain even as progress accelerates. Agentic tools often require paid access, technical setup, and sophisticated prompting, which limits mainstream adoption. Tech companies are racing to build more accessible versions for broader use.
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