The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper

0:00The last time you were on this podcast, you had this hot take that people were sleeping on clawed code.

0:05You were so unbelievably right.

0:06The premise of this episode is we're gonna go through what else you predict will happen.

0:10The AI job apocalypse is not really a thing.

0:13I am super, super bullish on PMs and full stack designers.

0:18You guys are hiring double than people in the past year, which is not what people would have expected from a company that is so AI forward.

0:24I am simultaneously extremely AI pilled and very bullish on humans.

0:29Automation is a lie.

0:30Every agent needs a human.

0:31We have so much automation, so much AI, and I also work way more.

0:34Creativity.

0:35It just feels like it's going to be more and more valuable to stand out from all the sloth that people are shipping and launching constantly.

0:40What models do in general is they make yesterday's human competence cheap.

0:44And so it becomes commoditized.

0:46It's not valuable anymore.

0:47What humans do is we go in there and we're like, yeah, we have all this frozen human competence from yesterday.

0:52How do I use this to like make something new and interesting?

0:54What are some predictions for how the way we work is going to change?

0:57It's going to bifurcate in two main ways.

0:59One is everyone's going to have at least one agent that they talk to that they can offload work to.