Steve Troughton-SmithI'm pretty convinced now that in the near future you'll be able to deploy an entire 'company in a box' of AI agents, with the equivalent to domain experts in programming, design, sound design and music, marketing, and more, that will feasibly compete with the average startup. The OpenClaw cultists^Wfans will tell you they're already doing this, today, on Mac minis. If you think this is hyperbole or kool-aid pyramid-scheme nonsense, I suspect you're not even remotely prepared for what's to come
Kyle Hughes@stroughtonsmith I think you are directionally correct but I also think this is “faster horses” framing. For the same reason we won’t have trillions of apps: if the friction goes away then the shape of the whole familiar system also goes away. There won’t be millions of companies-in-a-box because there won’t be any economic value in any of that because it will be a commodity. There is no way to prepare for a world where capital replaces labor; if that happens then the future is now determined.
@kyle I'm thinking more of a short time frame, not the distant horizon. The complete industrial collapse comes later 😅
@stroughtonsmith Understood. It will be a wild… 6 months.