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AI agents got so good that this top Meta exec quit her job

Three months ago, we began our podcast miniseries by asking how likely artificial intelligence is to take large numbers of jobs. Our first guest, Box CEO Aaron Levie, arg

Every's Dan Shipper on the "dirty secret" of writing with AI

For our penultimate episode, I wanted to visit someone running a version of that experiment in a somewhat unexpected place: the media business. Dan Shipper runs a website

An LLM wiki changed how I work

And everything else I learned about productivity this year. Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/karpathy-llm-wiki-journalism-productivity/ Hosted on

Town's CEO on the self-organizing company

Last week on the Platformer podcast, Replit's Amjad Masad predicted that within three years, we'll be using fewer apps and more agents — with the agents using apps on our

Replit's CEO: "You Don't Need to Code Anymore"

Last week on the Platformer podcast, Granola's Chris Pedregal told me we are only 5 percent into the AI transformation of work. For the fourth episode of our miniseries o

How much of my boss's job can AI do?

Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey. Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/replacing-casey-w

This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss

Last week on the Platformer podcast, Thomas Paul Mann predicted that within a few years, as much as half of the software on your Mac could be software you made yourself.

A big week for AI denialism

In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications. Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/a-big-we

The case for making your own apps

In the second episode of our second season of the Platformer Podcast, Raycast co-founder and CEO Thomas Mann offers a clear-eyed critique of commercial software. In his t

He tried 200 to-do apps so you don't have to

Last season on the Platformer podcast, we explored what AI means for jobs — including the risk that huge numbers of them might soon go away. This season, we're asking a m

Vibe coding has escaped the terminal

Adventures with Raycast’s new app-making app, Glaze. Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/glaze-app-raycast-vibe-coding-review/ Hosted on Acast. See

Why Amazon is hiring 11,000 junior employees

In the seventh and final episode of our first season of the Platformer podcast, AWS CEO Matt Garman explains why he's still bullish on hiring junior employees, even as he

Why this founder isn't hiring junior employees anymore

In the sixth (and first live!) episode of the Platformer podcast, Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda argues that argues that we are living in "the Microsoft DOS era o

How to help people who lose their jobs to AI

In the fifth episode of the Platformer podcast, Brookings senior fellow Molly Kinder argues that the AI jobs debate is stuck in a useless seesaw between apocalypse and de

A labor economist explains why AI won't take your job

In the fourth episode of the Platformer podcast, labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards makes the case that the AI jobs panic is overblown — and that the real threat to wor

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on the end of the software engineer

In the third episode of the Platformer podcast, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny explains how he's automating his own job. He hasn't written a line of code in more than s

Why Doomers Are Wrong about AI and Jobs with Google's James Manyika

In the second episode of the Platformer podcast, Google SVP James Manyika makes a bet: AI is not going to wipe out half of white-collar jobs in the next two years, no mat

The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job with Box CEO Aaron Levie

In the first episode of the Platformer podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie makes the case that you'll keep your job — you just won't recognize it. Casey talks to one of enterpri

The Trump administration's AI doomer moment

A year ago, officials all but sneered at the idea of AI safety. A new frontier model has them reconsidering. Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/trump

How we're shaking up Platformer for the AI era

On newsletters in the age of AI automation. PLUS: Musk and OpenAI in court, and China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition. Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.