AI’s Uneven Arrival

Misguided companies will see any increase in performance from AI as an excuse to lay off staff, keeping their output the same. More forward-thinking firms will take advantage of these new capabilities to both improve the lives of their employees and expand their own capabilities. This is an area where leaders have agency over the future of AI and w

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The entire tech community is under the impression that AI coding will result in power flowing from engineers to “idea guys.” Wrong—it will always flow to whatever still has scarcity: those who know how to get distribution

The analogy to publishing also point to what will be the long-term trend for any profession affected by these models: relatively undifferentiated creators who depended on the structural bundling of idea creation and substantiation will be reduced to competing with zero marginal cost creators for attention generated and directed from Aggregators; hi... See more