A doomsday prepper's guide to the post-software era
These days, you can’t scroll a page on any social platform without someone saying that, “Claude Code just killed X”, “Clawdbot just killed Y”, or some such thing.
Meanwhile, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, can’t stop grabbing a mic anywhere he goes only to say how the concentration of power in the AI industry and the fact that most software engineering jobs will be gone in the next 12-18 months are making his stomach churn.
Buddy… if it’s making you that uncomfortable, just stop releasing new models.
“Please make somebody stop us before it’s too late…,” appears to be the predominant sentiment that AI company execs are leaking right now through their media appearances and lengthy X posts. Is that to maintain plausible deniability when things really go sideways? Maybe.
Jokes aside, if you’re experimenting with frontier AI models, you’ve probably felt that underneath all the hand-wringing and click-baiting, there’s a kernel of truth.