Future of Work

“We are in the Palm Treo phase of AI. If it was accessible to everybody where you could just open ChatGPT and say 'I run a business, can you help me?' and it starts asking questions and becomes a digital employee - that's the iPhone moment we're going to have in the next five years.”

“What does a Frontier product look like? And more importantly, how does a Frontier way of working look like? What does a team with three people and tons of compute and AI tools look like?”

“And so I think that when all of that happens, the org chart starts to become the work chart. I think that tasks and throughput become more important than they have been before. I also think that you just don't need as many layers. I think the whole organizational construct might start to look different in a few years.”

“If you just think about 20 years in the future where we're way past the singularity, it's hard for me to imagine that even capitalism will look at all like it looks today. If we do our jobs, we will have safe aligned superintelligence, a country of geniuses in a data center, and the ability to accelerate positive change in science, technology, education.”

“It's highly likely that the entire economy will become an aural environment machine, building out all of these worlds and contexts. And I think the narrative in AI over the last three years has almost entirely been one of job displacement, but very few companies and people have talked about this new category of jobs that's being created.”

“Your job as the operator of that code-generating machine is to make a product or to solve a problem and you really need to have great systems thinking and you're going to be managing this machine that's doing a lot of the tedious work of making the button or connecting to the network.”

“It's meant for you to say, 'I want you to get something done,' and it goes and does it. And I think we're just getting to a point where for pretty much all the usual applications, AI is going to be good enough that we can get rid of the interfaces more or less where you're digging into all the things that it's actually doing.”

“All these LLMs are sitting idle overnight and on weekends, while humans aren't there. There's no need for that. They should be working all the time. They should be trying to build in anticipation of what we want.”