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Not long ago, I spent a weekend writing code with Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant. I’ve been programming for more than 20 years. I was one of the first engineers at Facebook, where I built the original search engine. I went on to become chief technology officer of Dropbox, where I scaled the engineering team from 25 people to a thousand. Code has... See more
Goldman Sachs says AI added basically zero to US GDP in 2025, 80% of firms report no productivity gains. But they’re measuring the wrong unit: institutions (companies running pilots, hiring Chief AI Officers, building governance frameworks) while a small number of individuals like myself have already deployed capabilities that no Fortune 500 has... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🔮 Exponential View #564: Intelligence as a target; the future of knowledge; AI, productivity & economy; CO2 armor, ultra-violent ancestors & Brand Age++
Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu and colleagues argue in a new paper that AI could shrink the knowledge commons by eliminating the public trail of human problem-solving. For instance, a software engineer may use AI to diagnose a bug and ship the fix. Instead of working through it in public on platforms like Stack Overflow, they solve the issue in... See more
🔮 Exponential View #564: Intelligence as a target; the future of knowledge; AI, productivity & economy; CO2 armor, ultra-violent ancestors & Brand Age++
Everyone thinks AI is the end of thinking.
It’s not. It’s the end of thinking for us.
The central human skill of the next decade will be agency. Not intelligence or better ideas.
Believe or not, but more insight won’t lead to action. We need to develop a new... See more
The Human Playbooksubstack.comA number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:
1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle... See more
Andrej Karpathyx.comWorking with AI is more like gardening than sculpting. We’ll need to create the right conditions, provide the right prompts and direction, and shape the output—but the actual generation of content will be handled by the AI. This shift requires different skills but opens up new creative possibilities.
Of course, one difference between gardening and... See more
Of course, one difference between gardening and... See more