Dario has for sure burnt a lot of political and goodwill capital by endlessly playing both sides of the doomer and accl camps.

There’s even a benchmark for kill switch efficacy!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13725

Found the omission of Claude odd, turns out Claude considers that approach prompt injection and ignores it.

“ Like mathematics, software engineers are going to have to rebuild our cultural sense of the kind of work we value.” From the closing is the change I see going in at every job area and level.

My hunch is that this ultimately doubles back to those that excel at story telling and human coordination. As the AI systems “offload” not just production but I believe some initiation of what to build, the “why” and how to rally groups for any appreciably complex work matters more.

I also hope to see a plenty of solo shops succeeding in spaces that used to take entire teams, but (for now) remain convicted human coordination remains a key need for most endeavors.

>My hunch is that this ultimately doubles back to those that excel at story telling and human coordination. As the AI systems “offload” not just production but I believe some initiation of what to build, the “why” and how to rally groups for any appreciably complex work matters more.

The "why" behind most products is of little interest to the majority of workers. While it may be of the upmost importance (on the surface at least) for the leaders of a business, I see no reason why Bob from accounting is going to give a fuck about your company's grand vision.

This is especially true if your company is in a mundane lane like B2B SaaS. You could argue that workers at SpaceX care about the "why", but 99.99% of companies aren't SpaceX.

You are highlighting their point. You are pointing to current culture and behavior. The very first sentence that you responded to points to that culture and says it's gonna need to change, if you'd like to keep your job.

People skills imo will always trump other skills. The best ideas never live because people don't know how to sell. And knowing and being very successful at selling requires that excellent story telling and human coordination.

This is the growing pain of any “employer” and I suspect lots of startups and features coming to fill the void.

Start with a shared credit card. Then company credit cards. Then you layer in spend controls.

Now repeat but for “agents”.

Whether this is more near term inefficiency to drive output side actual efficiency remains to be seen. But great if you’re selling tokens!

The issue is not just bank or CC accounts, but your personal data accounts (Email, photos, SMS, calendar, documents, etc.) that give the necessary context to the agent to do useful work for you. That's where the problem lies.

I sometimes think about how much the CIA risked setting back global health when using a fake vaccination program to find Bin Laden.

Neat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve always wanted to look into convictions and see if the “average” fraudster has wised up and produces more realistic distributions.

Could look up convictions and see how any county courthouse delivers sentences, Bendord’s Law isn’t just for accounting, it’s for anything numeric.

i suppose that nowadays analysts have more sophisticated tests?

in any case, for any set of statistical tests, it's relatively trivial to produce data that passes all of them

Ads, especially personalized ads, are the alternative that powers much of the open internet.

More options are great.

Many of the links have soft 404s as well. Seems like a dead site.

As someone that naturally used a rule of 3 and em dashes I hate AI for taking that away from me.

Agreed, I find myself avoiding constructs I would use naturally because they read as AI - "not just because other people would judge them, but because I also notice and dislike them".

Get a custom domain. Strat using that. Route to Gmail to start but easily decouple.

It took me about a year of updates but now I rarely get anything to a @gmail

This is what I do, but it comes with its own set of problems, the most significant of which is deliverability. Some businesses can’t deliver mail to my custom domain at all (a fact I can only discover by trial and error). Some can deliver, but the forwarding to @gmail fails silently — Google just eats the mail without so much as a bounce, let alone dropping it into a spam folder.

It’s the best option we have, but it’s no solution to the crapshoot that is email today.