AI is actually causing job growth… What’s driving cuts: • RTO friction • DEI pullbacks • Elon/X normalizing lean orgs • Post-COVID “non-essential job” hangover • Work-ethic + expectation mismatch • Smaller federal govt Companies are spending more on AI than ever to keep

Instead of going after fraud and maybe reducing taxes, let’s go after people’s constitutional right to private property

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

One thing I am noticing with AI is convergence of ideas. Similar questions lead to similar answers. Do competitors eventually converge on the same roadmap? Same marketing? Same strategy?

Loafers are the first thing X has persuaded me to purchase, but not through ads Nikita Bier

Complex software companies are going to be the distribution layer for AI. The AI labs own the intelligence. Point solutions are getting commoditized. But the complex incumbents? They have the GTM motion, the domain expertise, the proprietary data, the teams that actually know

I’ll know I’m losing my fastball the day someone outlasts me in the sauna.

Love this take. AI is an accelerator in both directions — it can compound your skills, judgment, and output, or it can turn you into an autopilot slop generator.

Think the levels are a bit off, but like the overall approach and aligns with my views here -> substack.com/@macksantora/n…

Much of the AI generated code was written by less capable models, often guided by junior devs -- only makes sense smarter AI model will review it and find vulnerabilities. It's like reading my college papers ... impressive at the time, questionable in hindsight... David Sacks

Claude coming for shoes now too...