2024: prompt engineer 2025: vibe coder 2026: master of ai agents 2027: unemployed

Lots of folks are apparently in utter disbelief at these numbers, because *obviously* Google search died in 2023, *no one* is using Google at all in 2026, so the numbers must be wrong somehow, or maybe it's just AI agents making all these queries? Nope, it's a plain fact that

opus 4.6: the full silicon valley cast dropped: - opus the neurotic manager (richard) - sonnet the long-suffering HR (monica) - codex the laconic engineer (gilfoyle) - gemini the insecure chameleon (dinesh) - kimi the cryptic wildcard (jian-yang) - grok the delusional

Lulu Cheng Meservey i am but a single woman in tech, but my tech career started off by being forced to participate in a marketing video that made an oblique reference to semen on my (blue) dress, i watched men spy in interview rooms of female engineers to see if they were "hot" enough to hire,

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” — Louise Glück

Almost every smart person I know who works in technology is experiencing extreme levels of anxiety. As if the rug is about to be pulled once and for all.

When a human mind consumes language and then produces an output (whether a human or computer language) we are mistaken to think that the main value is that output. The mind itself is transformed by that process and that transformation is also value. I’d argue it’s the key value.

Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire

Never has the gap been wider …

Every job invented in the 20th Century is threatened by AI.

"The most urgent film of our time." THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST is only in theaters March 27. Watch the trailer now.

The AI Bubble Is Real: Here’s What Happens Next 🔓 Everyone is talking about the AI bubble, but the real story is what’s happening in production 🙌 what are enterprises actually deploying? 🔗 gradientflow.substack.com/p/the-ai-bubbl…

we can write a million essays about how the future Silicon Valley wants to build is underwritten by a deep disgust with / contempt for Being A Human, or we can just let them speak for themselves

Someone made an updated Silicon Valley intro and it’s so good 😂

This is the most important thing happening in the world right now. The administration wants killer drones + mass surveillance of Americans. Anthropic refuses to build it. While most tech companies fall in line, they are prepared to pay the price for their principles.

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. anthropic.com/news/statement…

Have you ever thought it might be nice to resume a Codex session using Claude Code? Or vice versa? What about being able to pick up in gemini-cli right where you left off in Codex or CC? Unfortunately, you can't, because each agent harness uses a totally different format for