Claims that AI agents can build complex systems to “99% completion” deserve careful interpretation.
The missing 1% is not evenly distributed work. It is not a handful of edge cases waiting to be patched. In real systems, the last 1% is usually the…
repent (verb): to change one’s way of thinking after recognizing a flawed assumption.
Tech as labor is not “ending tomorrow.” It’s declining. Possibly halving in 10 years.
Layoffs keep coming. Amazon is cutting roughly 14,000 corporate roles.…
Why Tech’s Golden Age Was an Accident — and Why It Isn’t Coming Back
For a brief and historically strange moment, technology enjoyed a privilege almost no other field has ever had. It wasn’t just high-paying. It wasn’t just prestigious. It was…
This is not a moral argument. It is a mechanical sequence. When intelligence is tokenized, priced per unit, and made abundant, the following dynamics follow a predictable trajectory.
1. Compression (Euphoria)
The initial phase is defined by the…
