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It's an absolutely dominated platform with a single gatekeeper who tells you whether you have a right to exist or not. So if that's what the internet either becomes or the internet disappears or gets so kneecapped by all these fencing in that it starts resembling that, okay, I'm also out.

It's an absolutely dominated platform with a single gatekeeper who tells you whether you have a right to exist or not. So if that's what the internet either becomes or the internet disappears or gets so kneecapped by all these fencing in that it starts resembling that, okay, I'm also out.

But it sounds like the computer's thing.

But it sounds like the computer's thing.

That's for life. I've always wondered like... I hope so. I mean, this is actually one of the reasons I look at AI, right? Like we talked a little bit about that at the beginning. And people are like, they're so excited that like AI is going to take all programming jobs.

That's for life. I've always wondered like... I hope so. I mean, this is actually one of the reasons I look at AI, right? Like we talked a little bit about that at the beginning. And people are like, they're so excited that like AI is going to take all programming jobs.

And to some degree, I can be excited for that in the same way that like, did we need, I don't know, 2 million people tending to horses for our economy to function? Maybe not, but I don't really like horses, but I know people who do and they still ride them. I hope to be that. Yeah. I am still writing the manual code. I'm typing in the commands.

And to some degree, I can be excited for that in the same way that like, did we need, I don't know, 2 million people tending to horses for our economy to function? Maybe not, but I don't really like horses, but I know people who do and they still ride them. I hope to be that. Yeah. I am still writing the manual code. I'm typing in the commands.

I'm not just narrating to Cursor 5X AI to build the shit for me, right?

I'm not just narrating to Cursor 5X AI to build the shit for me, right?

Exactly. And I do actually think that that is – there's still going to be space for that. But I think it's very – plausible, and you should certainly consider that we've reached the high watermark, like that the number of people employed doing programming for a living has peaked. It's entirely possible.

Exactly. And I do actually think that that is – there's still going to be space for that. But I think it's very – plausible, and you should certainly consider that we've reached the high watermark, like that the number of people employed doing programming for a living has peaked. It's entirely possible.

If you look at almost any other phase of the economy that has happened, the number of people who work in agriculture, the number of people who worked on the assembly line, there are plenty of precedents for this idea that there was some glorious times for a certain industry and for the workers in that industry, and that ended. For one reason or another, usually economic or progress or otherwise.

If you look at almost any other phase of the economy that has happened, the number of people who work in agriculture, the number of people who worked on the assembly line, there are plenty of precedents for this idea that there was some glorious times for a certain industry and for the workers in that industry, and that ended. For one reason or another, usually economic or progress or otherwise.

Right. And I don't know what that's going to look like. And I think I don't want to be a fear monger here, but I do accept the fact that there are people who make their living doing this stuff who are right to be a little bit. nervous about it.

Right. And I don't know what that's going to look like. And I think I don't want to be a fear monger here, but I do accept the fact that there are people who make their living doing this stuff who are right to be a little bit. nervous about it.

Right? I mean, if you worked in Detroit in like, whatever, 1972, and you were putting together Buicks, and life was pretty fucking good, and you had a, whatever, good setup, and two cars in the garage, and all this stuff, like, Yet that doesn't exist in the same way anymore, right? Is that programmers' future? I don't fucking know. I hope not. I hope not and I hope also, right? Isn't that weird?

Right? I mean, if you worked in Detroit in like, whatever, 1972, and you were putting together Buicks, and life was pretty fucking good, and you had a, whatever, good setup, and two cars in the garage, and all this stuff, like, Yet that doesn't exist in the same way anymore, right? Is that programmers' future? I don't fucking know. I hope not. I hope not and I hope also, right? Isn't that weird?

Like we think back on like do we want to go back to subsistence farming? Do we want to go back to like 98% of the population like literally swinging a hoe? Probably not, right? We also don't want to go back to the assembly line that that occupies everyone. But it's very hard in the moment to like, what comes after? What is the next? Where is it all going to cycle into? I don't know.

Like we think back on like do we want to go back to subsistence farming? Do we want to go back to like 98% of the population like literally swinging a hoe? Probably not, right? We also don't want to go back to the assembly line that that occupies everyone. But it's very hard in the moment to like, what comes after? What is the next? Where is it all going to cycle into? I don't know.