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Meta/Google/Anthropic report 75%+ of coding is now AI. For every engineer orchestrating AIs -- X will be let go -- but at what ratio 3:1? 5:1? 10:1? Seems like its at least 3.

Of course Anthropic is going to report whatever they want to sell more shovels. This metric from an AI provider is not interesting.

Actually not worried about unemployment. This is an awesome development thing - called technological progress.

PS: Compare Assembly with Python - for sure the ration is more then 10x. Still we need much more devs compared to early days. For me the question is what the future software dev looks like (if the job still exists).


Chain a few tools together to make demos, give them away, charge for upkeep.

eg. yt: Nano-Banana + Kling + Claude Code = scrolling-exploded-headphones demo in a few minutes.

https://youtu.be/mhIAd5lVMag?t=133


If you take a year off to orchestrate some complex-workflows with agents... I expect you'll still be hire-able, but idk.

I've never seen a proper defense of XRP, but its been a top 5 coin for like a decade...


In the battle of capital vs labor, the capital wins when the laborers are not needed.


You probably don't need very much news at all. I like learning interesting second-order effects of current events, but they aren't necessary for my life. Here's a few I found interesting lately:

Gen-Z doesn't go to parties anymore because they are on screens all day and/or have social anxiety

Photoshop tutorial business is cratering because people aren't interested in learning how to manipulate photos when they can just create one via text

Japanese guy called do-nothing-guy gets paid to go to restaurants with pretty women in Japan because apparently they can't get a date or are too shy or something terrible is happening with the social fabric in Japan idk what

Its interesting to think about automating the news, you'd need a news feed from every courthouse, twitter feed, sports arena, press release -- run them through various processes, identify trendlines, etc. no small task


The secular papers at the time confirmed the events, so this hot take is low-efefort and low-information and obv wrong.

https://endtimes.video/third-secret-of-fatima/


The generic term is AI-headshot, there are dozens of companies doing this

https://www.betterpic.io/blog/best-ai-headshot-generators


Andrej Karpathy: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY


Andrej Karpathy's Nano GPT is reasonably accessible and easy to run.

https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT


AI, robotics, drones, self-driving: all poised to take a lot of jobs.


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