AI is going to change absolutely everything: markets, business models, science, culture, professions. Let’s look at what’s definitely going to change, or is already changing right now:
AI forces you to let go of your old identity
Developers don’t write code anymore. Everyone is doing everyone else’s job. Marketers do the work of PMs, PMs write code, developers build entire products end to end. Even mathematicians are in shock, and many of them are losing the sense of what their work is for.
AI will completely reshape how organizations are structured
In March, Jack Dorsey (co-founder of Twitter) wrote a piece arguing that org charts with layers of middle management will give way to flat organizations made of small functional teams. The reason is that agents will take over control, coordination, holding context and passing information around.
It’s getting harder to break into a profession
Almost nobody hires juniors anymore. And it’s unclear what we should even be teaching our kids.
SaaS is dying, or being rebuilt
Investors have stopped putting money into SaaS. “Software is dead” is the trend. One hypothesis is that software becomes a funnel for selling services. Another is that it turns into back-office tooling for service businesses. But nobody knows for sure.
Atoms vs bits
Faster scientific discovery and capital moving into the physical world will set off an explosion of innovation in manufacturing, engineering and deep tech
If every person gets access to an AI that can make scientific discoveries, imagine the explosion of creativity, new paradigms and new technologies that’s coming.
At the same time, the world is heading toward monetary crises.
Government debt in France, the UK, the US and Germany is at its limits. Bond yields in these countries are climbing fast. That’s bad, because it means falling demand for their bonds, which makes the debt grow even faster.
So the best thing you can do right now:
- Build adaptability and inner resources. Therapy, breathwork, meditation, good food, a healthy body. So you can surf the waves of change instead of freaking the fuck out in the whirlpool.
- Learn the fundamentals: physics, math, psychology, how the brain works. From first principles you can always work out the answer at higher levels of abstraction.
- Learn to enjoy change. It’s a skill and a mindset.
Nobody knows the future.
But it’s definitely going to be fun.