Two Scenarios 1. AI is superintelligent & sociopathic billionaires are genuinely worried for us. 2. Capital is gone & AI advancements have slowed. Now, billionaires need to use government constraints as cover for shareholders, framing the slowing as a regulatory issue outside of their control.

AI has been great for my productivity, but I’m starting to recognize three dark patterns: 1. Becoming too lazy to read anything It's too easy to just read AI summaries over the original piece or let agents go wild changing my files without reviewing what they did. 2. Getting distracted by agents while I’m out It’s too easy to open ChatGPT or Claude on my phone while I’m out to give feedback my agents and feel “productive,” even when I’m supposed to be watching my kids or doing literally anything else. 3. Preferring to talk to the agent vs. a human This is a new pattern with ChatGPT Voice, I sometimes find myself preferring to brainstorm with the agent instead of the actual human in the room.

I can only speak for myself, but a big part of this is we're just tired. Now that we can see how insane it was what we used to do, for decades, it's exhausting to just think about it.

Just having a quarantine mode where some bot takes the hit by installing it first before the package is provided to the public would be a step forward. Probably hard to make foolproof, though.

Rooting for @github. They’ve given me years of free infra. happy to give them some time to figure this out. You got this.

Tomorrow needs to be tended to by planting new seeds. New companies. New growth. New capital. And that's just not going to happen if the Danish state declares itself at war with capital formation or accumulation. world.hey.com/dhh/denmark-de…

I don't think AI will be the 10x or 100x multiplier that people say, because I think there are natural checks and balances in place regulating everything. You can code 10x faster now? Cool, do that for a week straight and you'll fry your brain. You will need to take breaks and regulate yourself. You can build a product 10x faster now? Cool, but it takes just as long as it always did to get people to care, get customers, etc. You can tear through the entire backlog in one day? Cool now there's no more work to do and everyone is fired. Maybe lets not tell the boss this is possible. You can generate any image of anything you want? Cool, but your friends can only take so many custom meme images before they disown you. You can send 10,000x more AI-enhanced "cold outreach" emails looking for clients? Sure but it takes just as long as always to gather requirements, discuss timelines, etc. None of that is any faster. Only a very tiny % of giga-chad geniuses will have both the intellect and the agency to employ AI in a way that actually 10xs or 100xs the value that they generate. The rest of us will be limited by organic or bureaucratic guard rails. Personally I'm very grateful for the role AI plays in my life. It allows me to code 10x faster with the time I allocate, which frees up other time to do things I enjoy in my personal life. My output is more than before, not 10x, maybe 2x. And my quality of life has improved. That's well worth $200 a month!

Devs who are feeling overwhelmed, take an hour out of your workday and do this: Setup 1. Get Anthropic Pro ($20), with a plan to upgrade to 5X Max later 2. Download Claude Code 3. Select Opus 4.5 (it's the default) Loop 1. Start plan mode 2. Plan a small feature 3. Once you're happy with the plan, auto-accept edits 4. Pause the LLM if you're not happy with the output 5. Clear context and repeat for the next feature Continue doing this until you get a feel for what the LLM can and can't do. It'll take 10-20 hours of practice.

The pushback against Anthropic right now is pretty stupid. Here's basically what happened: 1. They invent a new concept of an all-you-can-eat subscription to their amazing buffet restaurant. 2. It's the best food in town, so everyone wants it. 3. ...