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Anthropic's @_sholtodouglas says Dario Amodei's internal communication style is producing a compendium of essays in the company's Slack that will have effectively charted the history of AGI once we get there. "He has a really, really cool communication style. He quite frequently puts out very well-reasoned essays. And throughout Slack, we'll have giant essay-length debates [about them]." "The essays are really nice because you can go back and read all the past ones, and it tells the history of Anthropic." "In many respects, it will be one of the better things, a decade from now, to chart the history of AGI. We'll be reading these compendium of essays." From his appearance on the show last month.

Mark Cuban on the next big job students should focus on: Most companies don’t know how to implement AI, especially small businesses. “Companies don’t understand how to implement AI right now to get a competitive advantage… learn to customize a model, walk into a company, show the benefits. That is every single job that’s going to be available for kids coming out of school.” Don’t just study AI. Make it work inside a business. From our August 2025 interview with @mcuban .

Jordi: It seems pretty obvious that the models just getting smarter is not by default going to make adoption accelerate massively again. If you're a business that's not doing code-gen, not generating a bunch of assets, etc. - and somebody says, "For $20 a month, you get someone that's PhD level in math, but extremely low agency." A laundromat would be like, "Actually, I don't need somebody who's PhD level at math. Sir this is a laundromat."

This weekend, a Medium article called "I Reverse-Engineered 200 AI Startups. 146 Are Selling You Repackaged ChatGPT and Claude with New UI" made it to the front page of Hacker News. The author found that out of 200 AI startups, "73% are running third-party APIs with extra steps." The author also found that at least one company was putting a 1000x markup on model API costs. We discuss at length: