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I’ve been saying this for months, and the early data is beginning to support it. Five years from now, I believe AI will create more jobs than it eliminates. That may sound counterintuitive. But the data is proving this theory. Here are some factors worth considering. AI is exposing new human bottlenecks When one part of a workflow becomes dramatically faster, the constraint simply moves elsewhere. Organizations then need more people to remove the next bottleneck and capture the value AI has unlocked. Automation does not eliminate the need for human contribution. It often reveals how much more could be accomplished with it. AI fluency will become one of the world’s most valuable skills The emerging divide will not be between humans and agents. It will be between people who are highly fluent with AI and those who are not. AI-fluent people will not be 10% more productive. In some forms of work, they could be 50x or even 100x more effective. They will imagine better uses for AI, orchestrate agents and apply judgment where machines still fall short. These people will be scarce and enormously valuable. Productivity creates demand The assumption behind mass unemployment is that the amount of work the world needs is fixed. It isn’t. When technology becomes dramatically cheaper and easier to create, we do not simply produce the same amount with fewer people. We build more products, start more companies, solve previously uneconomic problems and serve markets that could never be served before. AI will lower the cost of ambition. The real risk, therefore, is not that humanity runs out of work. It is that millions of people are not prepared for how quickly the nature of work changes. The future will likely have more jobs. But they will not be the same jobs, performed in the same way, by people with the same skills. The imperative is not to protect people from AI. It is to help every person become fluent in it.

To my Product team at @Cisco. Just because you can build it instantly doesn’t mean it is worth shipping. Create a new mental model. Here’s my advice… Be intellectually honest with yourself and if you don’t possess these things, figure out a way to learn them, FAST in order to stay relevant. The rules of the game have changed faster than anyone thought. Don’t fight it. Adjust to the new reality. Keep learning. Stay hungry. Be continually curious. You can change the world now more than anytime in the past. Your future self needs to define success very differently. Internalize this…in the new world more than ever before, the next gen engineer will define success very differently. It looks something like this. - Success requires judgement - Success requires instinct - Success requires clarity in your mind on the most important problem you want to solve - Success requires good taste - Success requires obsession on outcomes - Success requires understanding unit economics. Be cost-aware like an operator. - Success requires extreme emphasis on safety - Success requires that you are a terrific manager of digital agents - Success requires that you move really fast - Success requires that you adopt an entirely new mental model - Success requires constantly learning and unlearning Ponder what it will take to succeed. It will be counterintuitive. It’ll be unsettling. It will take sacrifice. It will be ridiculously hard. It’ll be scary. Yet it’ll be exciting. It’ll allow you to imagine a very different caliber of ambition. At Cisco, we have shipped our first product at this point fully written by AI. Kudos to the AI Defense team. 100% of the code in AI Defense is written by AI. By the end of 2026, we have a conservative estimate of at least half a dozen products written completely by AI. By end of 2027, we will shoot to have 70% of our products written 100% with AI. And these products must be superior in dimensions of quality, performance, simplicity, usability, adoption, and delivering real business outcomes for our customers. I hope you make these goals look ridiculously conservative with the work you make AI agents do for you. It’s time to up-level ourselves. Modern development practices have flipped. I am proud of all of you who are teaching yourself to rethink how you work. Reimagine how you code. Your teams augmented by digital coworkers are going to look very different. You will have many more teammates who will work round the clock. I’m excited for what lies ahead in our innovation journey. Your innovation journey. Move fast. Deliver something magical. Obsess about safety. Let’s build a great freaking company and don’t let your imagination be your constraint.