take this a step further.
don't just simulate an expert. spin up a synthetic boardroom.
"simulate a debate between a paranoid ciso, a move-fast cto, and a burned-out sre about this architecture. do not be polite."
don't ask for the answer. ask for the conflict.
single perspectives have blind spots. the "assistant" tries to smooth them over.
force the model to argue with itself. the alpha is usually found in the friction between perspectives.
don't just simulate an expert. spin up a synthetic boardroom.
"simulate a debate between a paranoid ciso, a move-fast cto, and a burned-out sre about this architecture. do not be polite."
don't ask for the answer. ask for the conflict.
single perspectives have blind spots. the "assistant" tries to smooth them over.
force the model to argue with itself. the alpha is usually found in the friction between perspectives.
https://x.com/swayducky/status/1997754485737988339
this scales into the concept of the "ephemeral org chart."
in a traditional firm, a department is a fixed cost. people, desks, slack channels.
in an ai-first company, a department is a function call.
need a go-to-market blitz?
spin up a "marketing swarm" (copywriter, designer, strategist agents). let them run for 4 hours. generate assets. then kill the process.
the ai-first "org chart" is a dynamic runtime environment.
in a traditional firm, a department is a fixed cost. people, desks, slack channels.
in an ai-first company, a department is a function call.
need a go-to-market blitz?
spin up a "marketing swarm" (copywriter, designer, strategist agents). let them run for 4 hours. generate assets. then kill the process.
the ai-first "org chart" is a dynamic runtime environment.
the killer feature isn't automation. it's evolution.
human hiring is slow. you interview, guess, and wait 90 days to see if they suck.
with swarms, you run genetic algorithms on your "staff."
spawn 50 variations of a sales agent. varying aggression, tone, and creativity.
unleash them on a synthetic test set.
kill the bottom 49.
clone the top 1.
don't manage. select.
human hiring is slow. you interview, guess, and wait 90 days to see if they suck.
with swarms, you run genetic algorithms on your "staff."
spawn 50 variations of a sales agent. varying aggression, tone, and creativity.
unleash them on a synthetic test set.
kill the bottom 49.
clone the top 1.
don't manage. select.
the second-order effect is the death of b2b saas.
why pay $50/seat for a generic crm when your "engineering swarm" can spin up a bespoke, single-purpose dashboard in 4 minutes?
we are moving from "software as a service" to "software as a disposable utility."
don't buy the tool.
generate the tool. use it for the task. delete the repo.
just-in-time infrastructure.
why pay $50/seat for a generic crm when your "engineering swarm" can spin up a bespoke, single-purpose dashboard in 4 minutes?
we are moving from "software as a service" to "software as a disposable utility."
don't buy the tool.
generate the tool. use it for the task. delete the repo.
just-in-time infrastructure.
this also implies the end of "user interface" as we know it.
ui exists solely to bridge the gap between human biology and machine logic. buttons, forms, and colors are crutches for our eyes.
agents don't need a dashboard. they need a swagger file.
the next trillion-dollar company won't have a website. it will have a well-documented api endpoint.
the internet is going headless.
ui exists solely to bridge the gap between human biology and machine logic. buttons, forms, and colors are crutches for our eyes.
agents don't need a dashboard. they need a swagger file.
the next trillion-dollar company won't have a website. it will have a well-documented api endpoint.
the internet is going headless.
we are witnessing a speciation event. the internet is splitting into two distinct topologies.
1. the human web: biometric verification, high latency, visual, expensive. a walled garden for biologicals.
2. the machine web: headless, anonymous, infinite velocity. a dark forest of agents trading value in milliseconds.
the "dead internet theory" got it backwards.
the internet isn't dying. it's just becoming a factory that humans are no longer qualified to enter.
1. the human web: biometric verification, high latency, visual, expensive. a walled garden for biologicals.
2. the machine web: headless, anonymous, infinite velocity. a dark forest of agents trading value in milliseconds.
the "dead internet theory" got it backwards.
the internet isn't dying. it's just becoming a factory that humans are no longer qualified to enter.
the economic implication is the collapse of the attention economy.
the last 20 years of tech were built on "monetizing eyeballs" (ads).
agents don't have eyeballs. they don't get distracted. they don't buy things because of a cool logo. they execute logic.
you can't run a pre-roll ad on an api call.
marketing is for humans. math is for machines.
capitalism shifts from "persuasion" to "verification."
the last 20 years of tech were built on "monetizing eyeballs" (ads).
agents don't have eyeballs. they don't get distracted. they don't buy things because of a cool logo. they execute logic.
you can't run a pre-roll ad on an api call.
marketing is for humans. math is for machines.
capitalism shifts from "persuasion" to "verification."
this means the end of "b2c" commerce.
when an agent buys your groceries, it isn't "shopping." it is executing a procurement strategy.
ordering a pizza becomes a micro-rfp.
my "food agent" broadcasts a tender. 50 "pizza swarms" bid on price, latency, and nutritional specs. the winner gets the contract.
the entire global economy becomes high-frequency b2b trading.
when an agent buys your groceries, it isn't "shopping." it is executing a procurement strategy.
ordering a pizza becomes a micro-rfp.
my "food agent" broadcasts a tender. 50 "pizza swarms" bid on price, latency, and nutritional specs. the winner gets the contract.
the entire global economy becomes high-frequency b2b trading.
this creates a bifurcation of value.
agents will capture 100% of the "utility" economy (logistics, finance, procurement). it becomes a race to the bottom on price.
humans retreat to the "vibe" economy (art, hospitality, philosophy). the things that resist quantification.
we won't pay for goods. we will pay for the feeling of being human in a room with other humans.
utility becomes free. meaning becomes expensive.
agents will capture 100% of the "utility" economy (logistics, finance, procurement). it becomes a race to the bottom on price.
humans retreat to the "vibe" economy (art, hospitality, philosophy). the things that resist quantification.
we won't pay for goods. we will pay for the feeling of being human in a room with other humans.
utility becomes free. meaning becomes expensive.
the sociological end-state is a "biological class divide."
in 2010, rich people had screens and poor people didn't.
in 2030, it flips.
the poor will have ai tutors, ai therapists, and ai companions. infinite, patient, synthetic.
the rich will pay a premium for human tutors, human therapists, and real friends.
biological attention becomes the ultimate status symbol.
to be listened to by a human is the new private jet.
in 2010, rich people had screens and poor people didn't.
in 2030, it flips.
the poor will have ai tutors, ai therapists, and ai companions. infinite, patient, synthetic.
the rich will pay a premium for human tutors, human therapists, and real friends.
biological attention becomes the ultimate status symbol.
to be listened to by a human is the new private jet.
the fundamental scarcity shifts from "intelligence" to "volition."
intelligence is now a commodity. you can buy genius-level reasoning for pennies via api.
but the model has no ambition. it wants nothing. it sits in a void until you provoke it.
the only thing the machine cannot generate is a goal.
your job is no longer to figure out "how."
your job is to have the courage to decide "what."
desire is the new skill.
intelligence is now a commodity. you can buy genius-level reasoning for pennies via api.
but the model has no ambition. it wants nothing. it sits in a void until you provoke it.
the only thing the machine cannot generate is a goal.
your job is no longer to figure out "how."
your job is to have the courage to decide "what."
desire is the new skill.
but what's fucked is...
most people don't actually want anything original.
we are mimetic creatures. we want what our neighbors want. we copy our goals from the feed.
when the friction of creation drops to zero, we will face a massive crisis of imagination.
we are about to find out that "having a real vision for your own life" is significantly rarer than "being smart."
most people don't actually want anything original.
we are mimetic creatures. we want what our neighbors want. we copy our goals from the feed.
when the friction of creation drops to zero, we will face a massive crisis of imagination.
we are about to find out that "having a real vision for your own life" is significantly rarer than "being smart."
technology is a lever. it multiplies force.
if your internal force is zero (mimetic copying), the output is still zero. 0 x 1000 = 0.
but if you have genuine intent, the output is infinite.
this creates the widest inequality in human history.
not of wealth, but of agency.
the gap between "player" and "npc" is becoming an unbridgeable chasm.
if your internal force is zero (mimetic copying), the output is still zero. 0 x 1000 = 0.
but if you have genuine intent, the output is infinite.
this creates the widest inequality in human history.
not of wealth, but of agency.
the gap between "player" and "npc" is becoming an unbridgeable chasm.
so. do u want more agency?
agency is just vector stability over time.
the world is a chaos machine designed to drift you into the median. to make you average.
agency is the physics of holding a direction against that drag.
you build it by making micro-commitments and honoring them.
if you say you'll do x, and you do x, you prove to your own neural net that your word modifies reality.
you are training the "i am a cause" weight.
agency is just vector stability over time.
the world is a chaos machine designed to drift you into the median. to make you average.
agency is the physics of holding a direction against that drag.
you build it by making micro-commitments and honoring them.
if you say you'll do x, and you do x, you prove to your own neural net that your word modifies reality.
you are training the "i am a cause" weight.
this is the elon / spinoza connection.
high agency comes from distinguishing "social reality" from "physical reality."
social reality is consensus: laws, norms, history, "how it's always been done."
physical reality is truth: atoms, joules, first principles.
elon looks at a rocket and ignores the history (social). he only calculates the cost of materials (physical).
if physics says yes and the world says no, the world is wrong.
conviction is just the refusal to accept shared hallucinations as constraints.
high agency comes from distinguishing "social reality" from "physical reality."
social reality is consensus: laws, norms, history, "how it's always been done."
physical reality is truth: atoms, joules, first principles.
elon looks at a rocket and ignores the history (social). he only calculates the cost of materials (physical).
if physics says yes and the world says no, the world is wrong.
conviction is just the refusal to accept shared hallucinations as constraints.
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