Nilay Patel

The thing about senior engineers being less at risk is you got to get them from somewhere, right?

You got to hire junior engineers and train them and develop them into senior engineers.

But if we're hiring agents and AI to do all that work, where do the young tech workers come from?

Where do the junior engineers come from?

This talent pool is shrinking.

It seems like a set number of people are going to make all the money forever because you don't need to hire any young people anymore.

You know, they're teaching the kids cursive again.

This is a real thing.

The kids couldn't sign their names, so they started teaching them cursive again.

Can I ask you another rude question?

Sure.

Are all these people just trying to get their bag before the bubble pops?

If I was being the most cynical, that's what I would say is all these people realize that what they're building is unsustainable.

It can't actually do all the things that everyone says it can.

Claude is not actually alive.

I might as well collect my $500 million from Mark Zuckerberg and then the bubble will pop and I'll live on a ranch and be free.

Yeah.

This is the best argument for UBI I've ever heard.

Where do you get the values back?

You just give everybody money.