by lenny-rachitsky
Coding is a solved problem — the bottleneck shifts to taste, product sense, and deciding what to build. Boris Cherny makes the case that underfunding teams, betting on general models, and building for the model six months out is how you win.
by dario-amodei, demis-hassabis
AGI arrives within 1-5 years through AI systems building AI systems—the urgent question isn't whether we'll get there but whether humanity can navigate the technological adolescence of job displacement, geopolitical competition, and autonomous systems without destroying ourselves.
by anthropic
AI's productivity gains shrink dramatically when you account for task reliability—Anthropic's new 'economic primitives' reveal that complex tasks show greater speedup but lower success rates, and AI disproportionately affects higher-skilled work.
by alexander-opalic
A future vision where AI, robotics, and exponential technologies create unprecedented prosperity, making goods and services widely available at low cost, potentially leading to universal high income rather than just basic income.
by john-maynard-keynes
Keynes' 1930 essay predicting that by 2030, technological progress would raise living standards 8x and reduce the workweek to 15 hours—freeing humanity from 'the economic problem' but raising new questions about purpose.
by markus-lanz, richard-david-precht
Futurist Florence Gaub argues that difficult times create space for utopian thinking, while examining why Germans seem culturally predisposed to pessimism despite positive personal outlooks.