Agency is Eating the World

This shift has ushered in what Every’s Dan Shipper calls an allocation economy, where the value of work increasingly hinges not on traditional labor but on how we allocate scarce resources—time, attention, and focus. In this new paradigm, the question becomes less about what AI can do and more about how we choose to use it, what we allow it to repl... See more

True agency is an unruly psychological trait. It’s the willingness to act without explicit validation, instruction, or even permission. It’s the meme “you can just do things,” knowing that “you can poke life, and something will pop out the other side.” It’s a venture capitalist with no academic background founding the most important AI lab in histo... See more

The real revolution might be “AI for the masses at scale.” It’s increasingly clear that it seems to be worth building with the assumption that access to intelligence will continue to rapidly decline in cost, similar to that of computer memory and storage over the past 50 years. Each time the price of intelligence drops, it opens up a new opportunit... See more

The two most important things in the world from here is no longer what school you went to or what your resume looks like

It is the amount of **agency** you bring to the table, and the **taste** you have that lets you get the most out of AI

Agency (prompting) and taste (evals)