Andy Halliday

you know, where we use clause and or cloud code, et cetera, you can create files that capture that the process of learning by asking it to do an after action report and evaluate what it did and what it learned from that and add that to a skill file and that sort of thing.

But this is a new approach where the agent is actively and by its own nature, improving itself.

Yeah, you don't want to see a rogue set of agents out there trying to damage and or terminate other agents if they have the ability, right?

So knowing that your constitutional approach actually says there's a block on anything that's damaging or deleterious to another agent is, I think, that's encouraging to me.

Thanks for that.

No, we didn't.

I'll have a couple of strong weaves off of that line of argument, which is, okay, there's lots of layoffs in the technology space at the very time that you expect that there's going to be more opportunity and lots of

redeployment of humans who are have been useful before and yet ai is being used to justify uh you know a major reduction in head count in technology companies so headline jack dorsey

Founder of Twitter, now the head of Block, which is Square and that payment system, has just reduced their total workforce, human workforce, by 40%.

4,000 employees.

That happened in February.

And now he co-authored a post that argues that AI has made middle management, which I lived in...

many, many times in my progression in my career, middle management is architecturally obsolete.

His thesis is that managers exist to root information up and down the chain and to be the buffer between those two.

And he says, AI can now possess a world model of a business

simulation, a digital twin of the business and understand all of the needs for that.

And so now Block's entire organization is being modeled around three remaining roles, not managers anymore.

problem owners, people who need to have things solved, builders who will produce those solutions, and players coaches, meaning people who have some experience in the sort of integration of those two roles, building and problem identification and solution design.

So yeah, that's a big one.

And then