Imagine you have been looking at the Earth from space, for millions and millions of years. It always looks the same. All of a sudden it lights up, in a matter of decades. The blink of an eye. Could you have predicted that? Of course not. Humans love to predict things. People imagined insane urban landscapes when cars started becoming popular (look at the Western US and its unwalkable cities), or a dystopic life in virtual reality when the internet was invented. Look up the word "teledildonics." Now we live in one of the most unpredictable periods ever. We have a weird new technology, and the predictions are all over the place. It's pointless to predict whether AI is going to replace job X or job Y, whether it will kill us all (it's increasingly looking like it won't), whether jobs will disappear, or whether it will cure cancer. We're just going to have to ride it and see what happens. When an expert predicts with arrogant certainty that "in 10 years AI will..." just stop reading. Rolling your eyes is optional.

My agents found a RCE in the US Constitution, unnoticed by legislators for 237 years. I'll release the details tomorrow morning.

The other day at the airport I observed gate agents and they seemed to be having fun. So I made myself a gate agent simulator. I just worked a shift. Some of these people are on their way to Lisbon and I'm sure at least one is being waterboarded.

I say the best defense is a good offense. Last company standing wins.

I guess I'll go into hibernation until 2047. Can someone water my plants until then?

This is partly why IPOs are now delayed until VCs have extracted as much value as possible from the growth stage, and good luck retail investors.

Ok, who is inventing Ozempic for AI-generated code?

Funny how lots of poorer places manage to have free healthcare for kids (and everyone else) without the tech industry. You are the most inefficient administration in the world.

I predict that once Anthropic and OpenAI have gone public, and the Series W investors have cashed out, we're going to see a significant slowdown in model progress, as in iPhone 17 -> 18. We will enter the Gmail era of AI.

I can't wait for this event. I'll be the Simon Cowell of the panel.

Before serving the steaks, we ran a quick smoke test to ensure the grill was functioning as expected and the meat passed basic doneness checks.

Humanity is a superorganism that hates scarcity. We have been fighting it since the dawn of times and we're kicking its ass. But as individuals who evolved, we are very confused when something that used to be scarce is now abundant. Food is the prime example of this, but there are others. So far, AI has been helping us create an abundance of things that don't matter that much. Entertainment and apps that nobody needs, for one. But even if we manage to defeat scarcity completely, that's not a utopia. We will be like hammers without nails. Either we invent a lot of artificial scarcity, or we modify our nature.

Do you think companies are going to take it sitting down? Let me tell you a story. Apps hate churn, and they will do everything legal (in their jurisdiction) to charge you indefinitely. Case in point: my 82-year old mother had a bunch of odd app store subcriptions. Korean dramas and the like, free first week and then pay. She deleted them, thinking that was it. Little did she know she was still being charged. "Leave it to me, mother. I'll unleash the agentic power of my AI agent to agentically unsubscribe." The agent: "... and it turns out the maker of this other app is located in Krakistan. They don't have a phone number but I found their office in Krakabad. We could try to get someone to show up in person. However, at this point I think it's easier to just cancel the credit card."

The smoking gun. My sources tell me this is how it happened.

What happened with food is now happening with software: code obesity. Eat less, code less.

In Soviet Russia, Claude prompts you.

I am addicted to my silly Spanish clone of the New Yorker's Shuffalo. I play it every day. Y si hablás castellano en forma nativa o como segunda lengua, te lo recomiendo. revuelo.top/

Everyone is so high on how fast they can code, they fail to realize how much of a liability that is. If you create 100k loc with a couple prompts, you also insert a ton of bugs and whimsy architectural choices. "Click here for inifinite technical debt."

I always found it annoying that Aconcagua is 33 meters short of 7000. If this post reaches 6967 likes, I will build a 34m rock wall at the top. It will be at least 5.12, so summiting Aconcagua will be challenging.

Doing everything with agents seems like a good idea at first. But the world is adversarial. Companies rely on friction and human irrationality to profit from us. It is obvious that they are going to defend themselves. So it seems like the agentic layer will be an arms race that won't really benefit anyone.