Balaji Srinivasan
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I think this is worth reading carefully and maybe figuring out what the true graphs are from his critique of it, taking into account that, yeah, with Claude Code and Claude Co-Work and so on and so forth, definitely, but also taking into account that it basically like speeds up, I don't know, your guys' view is on this, but I find that it's basically like managing, you know, where you have to write the whole thing up
And that's actually a lot of work, the context engineering, you know what I mean?
Because you're sensing the world and you have to articulate that in clear written English and describe exactly the result.
The prompting and verifying then just takes up all the work.
That brings me to my next point, which is AI actually destroys arguably as many... You know why?
Why?
Because, for example, take resumes, right?
AI makes... It wasn't that hard to make a resume before.
AI does make it easier.
You know what makes...
It makes it hard to verify a resume.
AI makes it easy to write an email.
It wasn't that hard to write an email before, but now it makes it really hard to filter them, okay?
So many market strangers between tribes, right?
So recruiting, sales, marketing are being destroyed.
A spam, AI slops, AI scam, anything which is between economically disaligned tribes, there's so much...
that that channel is now defeated.
It wasn't built for that level of adversarial behavior.
It wasn't built for a channel where 99% of inbound, that it can beat the probabilistic fake detectors, like AI spam detectors broken, right?
Your normal filter is broken.