AI perspectives

“Familiarity is no longer a flex, it's the floor.”

“After he left, coworkers could still message “Wei” with technical questions, assign tasks, send voice notes, or upload pictures.”

“If you project the trend a little, everyone who's not an engineer is going to code a little more, and engineers like me are going to code less.”

“Figure out who is seeking value and create it for them.”

“What happens when the thing you used to sell becomes almost free?”

“A reflection on how AI tools transition from feeling revolutionary to becoming part of our everyday workflow”

“A winning strategy is emerging amongst builders: Engage with what AI can do partially and build for when the partial becomes complete.”

“Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026. period.”

“A sharp take on how AI acceleration might compromise marketing quality and strategic thinking”

“Neither theory, history or the latest data suggests a recession driven by AI job dislocation is likely”

“When technology leads to huge numbers of jobs disappearing quickly, bad things happen”

“From electricians to firefighters to açai bowl entrepreneurs, young Americans are pivoting careers based on one fear: AI taking their jobs”

“Work on your own? The bots are coming to ruin your life. Manage employee and constituent safety at a large group of harm-reduction-focused, state-funded addiction recovery clinics? “I use it for everything.”

“On their own initiative workers did more because AI made “doing more” feel possible, accessible, and in many cases intrinsically rewarding.”

“The true force of a technology is felt not with the substitution of tasks, but the invention of new paradigms.”

“I think agentic AI would work much better if people took lessons from organizational theory”

“If you give steroids to a Little League baseball player, they’re still a ten-year-old boy. Give them to Barry Bonds and he breaks every record in the books.”

“I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job.”