Claude gets its meme moment

Claude is getting better and better — and sometimes it seems all we mere mortals can do is meme our way through it.

Anthropic is on a hot streak of new launches. First came Opus 4.5, which quickly impressed developers. Then came Claude Cowork, which opened up Claude Code's already impressive abilities to non-programming tasks.

The memes have been flowing as the tech world processed the launch. Some played up the idea that the AI can do just about anything; others worried what that means for our jobs.

Claude, make me $1 billion

Can Claude run your accounts? Some X users joked about hooking the chatbot up to their banking information and password managers. "Make that number go up to $1 billion," one user asked. "Run my life," another wrote.

Another user proposed asking Claude to flirt for him, providing the chatbot with a photo of his crush and her phone number. "Make her my GF," he wrote.

These requests all came with the common ending for an AI request: "Make no mistakes." One X user dubbed it the phrase of the year.

Others celebrated the tool's ability to create quickly. Remarking on the phrase "Rome wasn't built in a day," one user quipped that "they didn't have Claude Code." Another user analogized Cowork to giving an ape an AK-47.

Then there's the classic puns. What do you call someone who hates AI? "Claudestrophobic."

Are we cooked?

AI is changing the workforce; that much is clear. It's already affected software engineers. Just ask this X user, who mocked a so-called full-stack engineer whose stack consists of Claude, Terminal, and Cursor.

While the new Claude innovations have filled some with meme-filled joy, it's given others a sense of dread.

"Claude, automate my job. Make no mistakes," one X user commanded, alongside a sad-faced Roman Roy from "Succession."

"I'm assembling a team," another wrote alongside an image of a company leadership team filled with Claude in every C-suite role — with a follow-up post saying they "just got kicked out of my own company."

"Got told I was 'slowing everyone down,'" they joked.

One X user described bankers, lawyers, and consultants in the unemployment line watching others join after the Claude Cowork release. Another wrote that the jobs left in 2030 include "associate Claude operator" and "principal Claude operator."

From flippant to fretting over job security, the memes highlight the mix of feelings that can come with seeing the growing capabilities of AI tools.

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