Anthropic and OpenAI both endorsed a new letter called Pacing the Frontier on July 28, asking Washington to help build tools for a deliberate, verifiable AI slowdown, not an immediate pause
Over 1,100 employees signed within a day, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and several co-founders, plus senior researchers at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta
The letter leans on Anthropic's own June research showing Claude now writes more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic's production codebase
For a solo developer running Claude Code daily, the honest read is a reason to pay closer attention to review habits, not a reason to panic
What Pacing the Frontier Actually Asks For
