David Heinemeier Hansson
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 26 Aug
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trying mostly to make light of it, but you can also see a dark version of that where someone does end up in an AI psychosis where they're not interested in other humans at all anymore.
I mean, s certainly don't have that at all, but I do have this sensation at times where
I'm really grateful for just the rush of just me and the agents.
Like, dic can I just not talk to anyone else but agents for four hours?
Like that's an incredible run.
The irony here is it already was.
So the number of fake email jobs that currently exist in this world is an absolute epidemic.
And this, by the way, is not a new thesis.
Um David Graeber wrote this wonderful piece, um, Bullshit jobs back in, I think it was maybe early 2010s.
based on a poll he did in the UK asking people at that time
Would I think the question was something like, Would it make a difference if you didn't go to work?
For humanity, for mankind?
And something like thirty some percent answered, no it wouldn't.
that a third of workers thought that their job was fake, that it did not produce any worthwhile, valuable outcomes, neither for the community or society, or maybe even the economy at all.
And
This was my argument since day one with startups.
This was why we stayed a small company.
This was why we didn't want to take VC because I was so skeptical of the idea that you could get
Hundreds of programmers, thousands of programmers to do something productive.
As a collective group.
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