Max Beauroyre

I’m actually planning on spending next week making as many AI scripts as I can to help with different parts of my work, from production to brand scripts to research.

We’re in a confusing period where AI capabilities have vastly outperformed even optimistic projections, but have undershot when it comes to economic impact. It’s not clear why that’s the case.

If I were an AI researcher who had a bunch of grad students who are really good at prompt engineering, I’d take them to ordinary businesses to see just how much they could increase efficiency. I’m not talking about tech companies but insurance firms, warehouses, or retail stores that don’t necessarily have high-level coders. Their job would be to e... See more

Hiring new programmers has nearly stopped, but there’s never been a better time to be a consultant on integrating AI into your business.

The General Secretary had long dreamed of doubling down on real-world physical manufacturing and avoiding American post-industrial decadence. He viewed software companies with suspicion.37 But hawks in the CCP warn that the growing race towards AGI can no longer be ignored. So he finally commits fully to the big AI push he had previously tried to a... See more

The AIs of 2024 could follow specific instructions: they could turn bullet points into emails, and simple requests into working code. In 2025, AIs function more like employees.

Our central bet is that software and systems for SMBs can replicate the benefits of scale and consolidation without sacrificing independence: profits, competition, and growth in a more decentralized economy.

Instead, it’s becoming obvious that the “software” businesses of the future will be more like compound companies that combine software with operational excellence, services, and/or real world physical businesses. And software might be the least interesting part of that to work on!