Getting a surprise shoutout on my all-time favourite pod, My First Million, was something else. Massive thanks to @gregisenberg and @thesamparr There’s still plenty of debate about our approach to this market; and that’s fine. As long as we stay true to our mission of empowering people at a time they need it most with the best tools available, others who share that mission will see it too. Moments like this remind you why you started. A really special one for me and the team.
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Ran a brand strategy session today and the line that stuck was "we're just making it suck less." Career tools love cheerleading. Confidence messaging, motivational nudges, coach energy. Our users want hard data and quiet competence. Progress creates confidence, not pep talks.
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Earth from Space, 13 years apart. White LED light breaks my heart.
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Seeing this across thousands of interviews daily at AIApply. Blaming layoffs on AI efficiency was an executive cop-out for bloat and bad forecasting. Now those exact teams are quietly rehiring at a premium because junior AI code broke production.
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Every founder flexes 100+ agent swarms until they check the invoices. You end up paying twice: once for the API tokens hallucinating loops, and once for the full-time human required to babysit what they broke.
Anthropic engineer: "99% of people use Claude Code like Google, and only 1% are running swarms of self-learning Claude agents I'm running 100+ agents in a loop. I have Chief agent, PM agents - they manage the whole team" in a 30-minute workshop, an Anthropic engineer revealed how to get max value from Claude Code at min. cost this is worth more than another $500 vibe-coding course Save this video for later
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Seeing this across thousands of interviews daily at AIApply. Blaming layoffs on AI efficiency was an executive cop-out for bloat and bad forecasting. Now those exact teams are quietly rehiring at a premium because junior AI code broke production.
Notice how the AI labs who are the most “AI-pilled” and have unlimited AI tokens to use per employee keep hiring and hiring, and are not laying off? Heard from a company investing big on AI which did big layoffs due to wanting to have fewer engineers thanks to AI that… they realized they need more engineers, ASAP. Who would have predicted, huh?
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We track thousands of interviews daily at AIApply and see the exact same thing on the ground. The panic was AI killing tech jobs. The reality is dev demand rebounded because millions of non-technical people are now starting companies and need engineers to maintain what they built. nitter.net/jowettbrendan/status/2…
The Economist says AI created a million jobs in America. I read that twice. Then I found out who's getting hired and it made total sense. For two years the only headline was the same one. AI is coming for your job. Learn to code was dead. Entry level was finished. Everyone under thirty was about to be replaced by a chatbot. So The Economist did the thing nobody else bothered to do. They actually counted. They lined up every job AI created against every job it killed. The layoffs first, because that's the part everyone was waiting for. About 200,000 jobs gone since mid 2023. Real people, real pink slips, companies openly blaming AI. Customer service down around 10 percent. Admin and secretary roles down about 15. That part of the fear was true. Then they counted the other side. Around a million new jobs. Five made for every one destroyed. I sat with that number for a second because it's the exact opposite of what I'd been told to expect. Then I looked at where the jobs actually went, and the whole thing clicked. The biggest winners of the AI boom don't touch a keyboard. They're electricians. Here's the part nobody explains. AI doesn't live in the cloud. The cloud is a lie we tell ourselves. AI lives in enormous buildings full of computers that run hot enough to cook an egg, and those buildings have to be built, wired, cooled, and fed more power than a small city. So the money went there. Around 320,000 more jobs than normal in the industries that build these things. Electricians. HVAC techs. The people who wire electrical equipment. Utility crews. Companies are so desperate for them that data center jobs pay about 40 percent more than the same work anywhere else. The white collar side grew too. Roughly 730,000 above trend in the jobs sitting closest to AI. Engineers, software people, data scientists, plus a wave of roles that didn't exist three years ago like the people who label training data and the ones who bolt these systems into real companies. Even the jobs everyone said were doomed kept growing. Paralegals up 11 percent. Market research analysts up 6. The national average was around 2. Now the honest part, because I'm not here to sell you a fairy tale. This is an estimate, not a government census. Nobody at the Bureau of Labor Statistics stamped a form that says one million AI jobs. The Economist built the number from employment trends and some careful guessing, and the two sides aren't perfectly comparable. The layoffs are announced cuts. The million is jobs above where the trend line said we'd be. And "created by the AI boom" is doing heavy lifting. An electrician wiring a data center is real work. It is not AI hiring a million prompt engineers. But strip all of that away and one thing survives. The apocalypse everyone promised is two years late. The thing that was supposed to erase work quietly built a small city's worth of it instead. We spent two years scared of the wrong number.
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Pitch deck I wrote 11 years ago for my first startup vs our new app
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background music and this whole vibe of this brand vid… *chef’s kiss*
their average user is 76 years old, and they keep selling out.
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What if you reached for a keyring-sized book instead of your phone? A pocket-sized e-ink speed reader for books, blogs, and LLM output. No feeds. No pings. Just one word at a time. Try the 450 WPM demo. Should this exist?
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not inaccurate
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ok i get it now
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Which one are you more likely to download and why?
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Convinced the collective Tesla AI brain will decide to run over at least one human for the net benefit to humanity
Here is the famous Moss stop for a Tesla Cybercab on public roads 😂 Do not do this as support gets really mad
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Updating our HR policies and even I'm stumped on this one
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There's a bug in the matrix
I’ve successfully run the full retained MaleCNS v1.0 fruit fly connectome, all 166,700 neurons, inside Minecraft, with its simulated neural activity driving a fly’s movement. V1 Currently in development. Built with the help of GPT-6 Astra. Props to the @OpenAI team and @thsottiaux for this release. Code and mod coming soon!
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Growth MBA in one tweet
Stop asking “is this useful” Ask “would someone flex this” Useful gets a download Flexing gets a share Different games entirely
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stunning format I must say
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Fun fact, I'm in the shot on the left.
How it started. How it’s going. A direct attack on warm lighting, magic, and whimsy.
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