(San Francisco, CA) — Anthropic announced "CoCaine" on Friday, the company's new AI-powered productivity accelerator designed to "fundamentally change the way engineers work, sleep, and perceive the passage of time." A spokesperson noted "By far our most powerful and, er, engaging model yet. After the success of CoWork, we knew we could go further."

CoCaine, which Anthropic describes as an always-on productivity companion that eliminates the need for breaks, meals, or weekends, is available immediately to Claude Max subscribers at an additional $400 per month. They noted that "local pricing may vary - contact your local 'representative' for specifics".

Users are hooked, it seems. > "We noticed that people using CoCaine were already engaging for significantly longer periods of time; 36-hour coding sessions and similar engagements" said Anthropic's VP of Sustained Human Output, Dr. Lydia J'ters. "CoCaine just formalizes that experience into a product."

"I've never felt so productive," said one early access user, a startup CTO who asked to remain anonymous. "I refactored our entire monolith into 47 microservices between midnight and 6 AM. I don't remember doing it, but the commits are there."

Elon Musk, typically reluctant to use anything but his x.ai lab's Grok product, noted that "This actually sounds pretty interesting, I might have to try it out"

Anthropic's safety team acknowledged reports of involuntary pair programming, jaw clenching, and an inability to stop refactoring, but described these as "alignment features, not bugs." The company plans to follow up CoCaine with another powerful model release "Opioidus 5.2", which ceo Dario Amodei said "take engagement to a whole new level."