CTO | 25y building tech | Now building companies with AI agents. Author of "The Broken Staircase"
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In the last 10 months I went from having a 12-person tech team to barely 2.
Not because they were bad. Because AI tools made most of their roles unnecessary.
I'm not a futurist. I'm the guy it happened to.
I wrote it down.
The labor compression already underway.
The financial crisis no one's pricing in.
Who wins the battle for AI distribution.
The crisis of purpose when work disappears.
What breaks when institutions can't keep up.
Why the old rules don't apply anymore.
What an economy of abundance could look like.
Superintelligence.
And whether coexistence is even possible.
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Ver al agente de claude code chateando con alguien de soporte (parece real) de Amazon, es delirante...
Javier Pardo retweeted
¿Recordáis el juego de movil "PLANTAS VS ZOMBIES? Pues aqui el señor EHuanglu se ha pegado el curro de su vida con IA para traerlo a la realidad....IMPRESIONANTE
Javier Pardo retweeted
I was invited to address the @UN Security Council this afternoon to discuss the unprecedented threat posed by uncontrolled frontier AI agents.
Humanity has summoned the courage and wisdom to manage catastrophic risks before. This is one of those moments, far bigger than any personal, commercial, or national interest. The choices we make about this technology today will shape generations to come. We must act now.
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When a discussion becomes tribalized, the collective mind drops by 50 IQ points
If you have multiple Claude Max accounts and use Claude Code, stop running claude login every time you hit a rate limit.
claude-swap rotates between your accounts with one command:
- claude-swap check — see rate limits per account
- claude-swap auto — auto-switch to the best one
Zero dependencies. Single file. macOS & Linux.
github.com/kokoima/claude-sw…
What happens when ALL companies lay off workers for AI at the same time?
Researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published "The AI Layoff Trap": a mathematical model proving that mass AI layoffs are a prisoner's dilemma at global scale.
The mechanism is brutal in its simplicity:
If you don't automate, your competitor does and destroys you.
If EVERYONE automates, demand collapses and everyone loses.
Better technology does NOT solve the problem. It amplifies it.
Block cut nearly half of its 10,000 employees. Salesforce replaced 4,000 support agents with AI. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025, with AI cited as a key factor in many of those cases.
Every company is doing the rational thing. And the collective outcome is irrational.
Nayib Bukele summed it up on X: "You optimized costs and killed your own customers… and your company."
Elon Musk replied that SpaceX and Tesla are still growing.
That response is EXACTLY the problem the paper describes. Each player watches only their own numbers. Nobody watches the system.
The most effective solution according to the model? A Pigouvian automation tax. Not universal basic income, not equity sharing, not private bargaining. None of them change the incentives. Only a tax that internalizes the social cost.
And what happens to the individual trapped in this?
I wrote a book about that a few months ago. I wrote it before this paper existed. About the broken social contract, about people trapped in macro forces no one controls, about ladders that no longer lead anywhere.
It's called The Broken Ladder (La Escalera Rota). What this paper proves with equations, the book tells through stories.
Paper: "The AI Layoff Trap" — Brett Hemenway Falk (UPenn) + Gerry Tsoukalas (Boston University), arXiv 2603.20617
A paper from UPenn and Boston University just mathematically proved what many of us sensed:
AI layoffs are collective suicide.
Every company replacing workers "optimizes costs"... and destroys its own customers.
Even Bukele said it: "You optimized costs and killed your own customers."
Elon replied: "SpaceX and Tesla are growing."
That response IS exactly the problem the paper describes: each player watches their own numbers and can't see the system collapsing.
I wrote a book about exactly this. About the broken social contract, about individuals trapped in forces no one controls.
It's called The Broken Ladder (La Escalera Rota).
What the paper proves with equations, the book tells through stories.
a.co/d/0d6xrstM
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i'm on vacation with my family. i read about mythos and couldn't relax the rest of the day. i am completely stunned. i already have a severe case of ai psychosis. i dont know what to call this now.
i'm up late right now (late for me). i can't stop reading about anthropic's new model that they can't even release publicly because it's so good. this feels different. words like "frightening" and "uneasy" and "scary" are being throw around by the anthropic team. i feel all of those things.
i knew this moment was coming. i didn't know it'd be so soon. i'm generally optimistic. i don't feel as optimistic today. i was shell-shocked most of the day. my mind was stuck on it.
i kept looking around at people enjoying their vacations with their families and...i just felt weird. like i had been told aliens are real, they're coming, and soon...and no one else knows. it's true though, practically no one knows what's happening in AI right now.
where does this go from here? how quickly? is software solved? is all software vulnerable now? am i even asking the right questions?
what about anthropic? this is an enormous amount of power for one company, one man (dario), to have. i've said this before but now it's more real than ever: can any company catch up to anthropic? opus likely helped build mythos, mythos will help build the next model after that.
recursive self improvement is here. the "intelligence explosion" as leopold aschenbrenner put it, is here.
i knew the frontier labs were racing towards ASI. i knew it. but i didn't fully grasp what it meant. the first company to reach it wins. period. full stop. nothing else matters. dario knew that and his bet on coding was right.
on the one hand, imaging all science, math, coding, climate problems being solved. imagine cancer being cured. imagine going to the stars.
on the other hand - imagine concentration of power, political and economic change happening so fast, society can't adapt.
how do we go on like things are the same?
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Glasswing is possibly the most consequential event in the AI industry I've seen up close since joining Anthropic almost 3 years ago. It feels like we're at a turning point in history.
Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.
It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
anthropic.com/glasswing
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Andrej Karpathy just dropped a project scoring every job in America on how likely an AI will replace it from 0-10
> Scraped all 342 occupations from the Bureau of Labor
> Fed each one to an LLM with a detailed scoring rubric
> Built an interactive treemap where rectangle size = number of jobs and color = how exposed that job is to AI
The key signal in his scoring: if the work product is fundamentally digital and the job can be done entirely from a home office, exposure is inherently high.
The scale:
0-1: Roofers, janitors
4-5: Nurses, retail, physicians
8-9: Software devs, paralegals, data analysts
10: Medical transcriptionists
Average across all 342 occupations: 5.3/10.
The entire pipeline is open source. BLS scraping, LLM scoring, the visualization. All of it. Much respect for the sensei this is scary and awesome
"When you have to work, the question of purpose doesn't exist. When you don't have to work, the question is everything."
I wrote an entire chapter on this. The crisis isn't economic, it's existential. The historical pattern is clear: communities that lost their economic function collapsed psychologically even when income was replaced.
amazon.com/dp/B0GQP7BRYJ
