💯 What happens when AI can do my job without me?

Window Into the Future 🔮

I’ve seen so many headlines about this essay, and the one number that keeps coming up is the 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs that Dario says will be displaced in 1-5 years. Scary yes but also not news.

Here's what a lot of people are missing from the essay:

The help you’re getting from AI won’t last

Lately, you’re using AI to get help. Summarize this. Draft that. Fix this code.

Dario's point is this won’t last. The gap between "AI helps me do my job" and "AI does my job" is not decades away but years, if not less.

Only two years ago, AI couldn't write a line of code. Now it's writing most of Anthropic's codebase. That's an absolutely crazy shift.

Being "average" is not enough anymore

When farming got automated, people moved to factories. When factories got automated, people moved to offices. There’s always somewhere to go because technology disrupted one thing at a time.

AI doesn't work like that, it's getting better at everything cognitive.

If you were a strong coder last year, you might be average now because AI compressed what "good" means. And if you were average, you just got pushed below the line you didn't know existed. Dario calls it a general labor substitute for humans. Which is a polite way of saying there's no obvious ladder to climb this time.

What you can actually control

Look, the essay covers bioweapons, geopolitics, totalitarian surveillance states. All real risks. All important. But also not what you’re solving when you log in your work tomorrow.

You're deciding whether to spend 30 minutes today learning how AI actually works. And that decision compounds.

You don't have to solve all of AI's problems. You just need to solve Monday morning. Can you take one task this week that normally takes an hour and figure out how to do it with AI in 10 minutes? Can you try brainstorming with Claude instead of staring at a blank page?

Whether you're in one of our challenges, took a bootcamp, training with your team or just read this newsletter, the fact that you're still paying attention to stories like this means you're ahead. The question is what you do with that advantage.

If you want to read it, here’s the full essay.

The Vibe Coding Games 🥇

Speaking of actually building things, Harold and Ash just launched this thing called The Vibe Coding Games which I def recommend joining.

Starting this week, they’re also hosting a series of 9 live workshops with Q&As where you can learn how to ship SaaS products, internal tools, marketplaces, online stores and mobile apps.

Before you go ✌️

Three things happened last week:

• Google showed us what's technically possible (infinite AI worlds).

• Dario showed us what's probably coming (AI coming for half of the entry-level jobs in less than 5 years).

• Harold showed us what you can actually do about it (build something this week).

The difference between demo and reality is real but sitting around waiting to see what happens isn't a strategy. This week, try one thing and see what breaks.

See you next week! 👋