When AI gives pre-pandemic vibes

Today is the Chinese New Year and there’s been a lot of hype around the year of the horse.

We are on the brink of things shifting quickly. Cue in the AI-is-gonna-take-your-job gloom and doom. This week everyone was weighing in on AI startup CEO Matt Shumer’s viral X post that compares this moment to the final days before the pandemic in 2020.

Fringe voices were warning what was ahead. No one was stocking up on toilet paper. Not many people would have predicted the entire world was about to shut down. He says this is the same thing happening in the job market because now AI doesn’t just write code—it can build, respond and problem solve all on its own.

"The experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from 'helpful tool' to 'does my job better than I do', is the experience everyone else is about to have," he wrote.

His post has now reached over 56 million people. To me it signals how much thought leadership is needed and valued in this space. 

I don’t think you need to jump on the trend of AI predictions. 

There’s enough of those. And while we don’t know exactly what is going to happen to the job market,  solutions-oriented leaders who communicate ideas and provide a roadmap for this new wild future aren’t going anywhere. 

Want more? I’m dissecting the viral post in this week’s HyperFix breakdown on Youtube. 

ChatGPT retired its 4.0 legacy models on February 13, breaking my heart just in time for Valentine’s Day. The reason is largely due to safety and costs. While this model has created a lot of unhealthy emotional attachment for users due to its warm and affirming conversation style, I personally found it more responsive to my instructions. Between this and ChatGPT launching ads for free-tier users, many are jumping ship.

But just like converting from a PC to a Mac, if you leave what do you do about all your files and context information? Vanessa Chang’s guide shows you how to export all your data from ChatGPT and take it with you. She also includes prompts for training Claude with your ChatGPT data. It’s an easy three-step process in settings.

Will you be part of the great migration or are you sticking with ChatGPT? Let me know!

The Pentagon wants the right to use Claude for military surveillance on foreign adversaries. Claude is saying “no way.” That contention has escalated with the Pentagon labeling Anthropic as a supply-chain risk. Anthropic doesn’t want their technology used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons.

This comes after reports that Claude was reportedly used via Palantir Technologies in operations tied to the capture of Nicolás Maduro. 

My take: Anthropic currently has a $200 million contract with the Pentagon, so it will be interesting to watch if the company sticks to their ethics or begins to make compromises. Anthropic has been distinguishing itself from OpenAI and other AI technology by being the more ethical and safer alternative. But when money is on the line in the AI tech race, it may be tempting to toe the line. 

✨ AI KOOL-AID

I recently attended The Multiverse School’s AI & Creativity course. The course covered prompting for writing better with AI. Here’s a prompt I’ve been using to help improve that I adapted from the course. Every time I write the HyperFix, I run it through an LLM with this:

You are an editor who specializes in copywriting. Review my newsletter: [YOUR newsletter]

Give me brutal honesty:

- What's the strongest element?

- What's the weakest?

- What questions does this raise that I need to answer?

- How can I improve my open rate? 

🔥 EXTRA HYPE

• Meta shelves facial recognition for smart glasses 

• OpenAI hires the creator of OpenClaw

• Newsletter ad spending surges by 40 percent

• When agents train their own models 

• New tech could reduce data center consumption by 30 percent

• Manus launches personal assistant agents via Telegram

• India is now the second largest market for ChatGPT & Claude

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