@lennysan: .@danshipper: "The AI jobpocalypse is not a thing. The mass unemployment thing that AI lab CEOs are talking about—that'…
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Dan Shipper argues that the AI 'jobpocalypse' is not real, as AI commoditizes past human competence rather than causing mass unemployment. Lenny Rachitsky highlights Shipper's accurate past predictions, including the underappreciated rise of Claude Code.
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.@danshipper: “The AI jobpocalypse is not a thing.
The mass unemployment thing that AI lab CEOs are talking about—that’s not going to happen.
AI models make yesterday’s human competence cheap.
But what’s interesting is that since everyone’s using the same models, it all looks the same. So it becomes commoditized. It’s not valuable anymore.
And what humans do is we go in there, and we’re like, yeah, we have all this frozen human competence from yesterday, how do I use this to make something new and interesting, today?“
Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan): Automation is a lie. CLIs are over. The SaaSpocalypse is dumb.
A year ago @danshipper came on the podcast to predict where AI was heading. He was remarkably right—including the call that everyone was sleeping on Claude Code.
Dan has a unique lens into where things are going
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