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Among workers 22 to 25 in jobs considered highly exposed to AI, employment is now shrinking by 3.8% a year. The overall effects remain small: AI-exposed jobs shrank 0.2% year over year, while the least-exposed jobs grew 0.1%. But Americans can be forgiven for extrapolating these trends out a few years and worrying about what it means for them.

Casey Newton
2w ago

For companies using advanced AI coding tools, only 18% of spending on tokens is translating into shipped coding products that reach real users, according to EntelligenceAI, a startup that aggregated data on more than 2,000 companies using advanced AI tools for coding. Jellyfish, a company that tracks AI usage, found rapidly diminishing returns in terms of converting tokens to actual software.

1mo ago

There exists a vast pool of technologies that are potentially superior to those we employ today, but which require scale and learning curves to reach their potential. Advanced nuclear reactors are one such technology - they are more expensive than alternatives today, but manufactured at scale, and benefiting from the learning curves required to get there, may become cheaper than other generation technologies.

1mo ago

Every major technological boom has produced the same figure, the person who gives everything to the wave. During the industrial revolution, it was the factory worker. During the Gold Rush, it was the men who left their families and headed west. During the dotcom boom, it was the founders sleeping under their desks in SoMa. Now, it is the person who is building, building, always building — vibe coding at midnight, constantly upgrading their models—convinced that stopping for five minutes means missing everything.

2mo ago

Fashion moves faster than commerce, which moves faster than infrastructure, then governance, then culture, then nature.

2mo ago

Basically, none of these groups thinks that any amount of AI capabilities will enable economic take-off. To me, that suggests that they're thinking — perhaps subconsciously — about something more than just friction and slow adoption. One possibility — which I should write about more — is that people suspect that humanity is getting satisfied, at least in the developed countries, and that the amount of new valuable things that even a godlike AI could create for us is limited by our inability to desire more goods and services.

3mo ago

This Generative AI momentum is creating a lot of optimism around the potential of one person companies or solopreneurs using agentic AI. If Agentic AI works out, small businesses might have a new array of powerful tools as well.

3mo ago

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