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Dec. 16, 2025, 4 a.m.

The New Productivity Frontier: AI, Algorithms, and Human Leverage

"Issue 29: New AI Foundation, YouTube's content shift, cheaper software creation, and pay disparity in AI era."

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Good Morning and Happy Tuesday. This is issue 29 of The Tech Stop.

New AI Foundation, YouTube's content shift, cheaper software creation, and pay disparity in the AI era

  1. Leading AI players formed the Agentic AI Foundation to create open and interoperable standards for autonomous AI systems, accelerating safe, scalable enterprise AI adoption. More.

    POV: Aligning AI initiatives with open standards to avoid vendor lock-in and ensure interoperability across the tech stack.

  2. YouTube is prioritising fresh content, reducing long-tail visibility and rewarding volume over quality. More.

    POV: Shift from evergreen content, and optimise for timely output.

  3. Agentic coding has collapsed software costs and reshaped engineering - senior leaders can now produce real code and amplify small teams. More, More and More.

    POV: Evaluate tech leadership for CTOs who design systems, guide agents, and review critically.

  4. As automation and AI amplify output, compensation gaps widen. If unmanaged, this creates negative ROI roles, internal inequity, and organisational drag. More and More.

    POV: Rebalance roles and pay around value created per person using automation to eliminate low-leverage work.

And just for fun… The Size of Life

That’s it for this time folks, have a great week! 😀

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