Robotics

NEWS: Boston Dynamics has just released a new video of its upgraded next-generation humanoid robot called Atlas. • 4 hour battery. Self-swappable for continuous operation • 6 feet 2 inches tall • Weight: 198 lbs • 56 total degrees of freedom • Now fully electric, ditching older hydraulic systems • New lightweight mix of aluminum and titanium components • 110 lbs weight capacity (66 lbs sustained) • Can reach up to 7.5 ft • Constantly evaluates its surroundings and adjusts its posture, balance, and grip in real time • Hands that can reconfigure as needed. Tactile sensors feed data back into the system, helping apply the right amount of force • Brain is powered by Nvidia chips

We got our robots to wash pans, clean windows, make peanut butter sandwiches, and more! Fine-tuning our latest model enables all of these tasks, and this has interesting implications for robotics, Moravec's paradox, and the future of large models in embodied AI. More below!

Got a 3,500 word banger coming out tomorrow. Represents months of interviews, customer calls, and late night writing by me. The age of robots has come.

Doing a long, super-technical podcast on the state-of-the-art in AI. Let me know if you have question, topic suggestions. Everything from details of LLM training pipeline & architectures, to coding, robotics, scaling, compute, business, geopolitics, etc. Besides topics & questions... add papers, blogs, posts, rants, perspectives that you'd like to see covered.

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JUST IN: Elon Musk says AI and humanoid robots will "eliminate poverty" and "make everyone wealthy."

Every post you write, every spreadsheet you fill, every graphic you create, and every line of code you ship is feeding what will replace you. I’m writing this just before we enter 2026. I’m writing this whilst you’re training your replacement. Start your year with purpose: It’s true. AI & robotics will wipe out the majority of white collar and blue collar jobs that exist today, job’s will be replaced and people will be be put onto a universal basic income. Oh, you think this is sci-fi? they’re saying it out loud to you: We will enter a period of abundance and we’ll be put onto a universal basic income whilst AI & robotics do our previous jobs. Here’s how you become valuable before you become valueless: > Contents: > 1: We’re unwillingly training our replacements > 2: What happens when we stop working? > 3: Seeking signal over noise > 4: Becoming valuable > 5: The skills you need to learn (important) ## 1: We’re unwillingly training our replacements I might as well start with the “doom & gloom” first because it’s important to process it. We can then do something about it after because where there’s “doom & gloom” there’s opportunity to those who are working towards it. Unless you’re happy to be a couch potato and received basic income and mindlessly scroll through short videos for the rest of time. I don’t think that’s you, so let’s read on… We are training our replacements whether we like it or not, and the sad part is, if you’re not helping to train your replacement then you’re going to not only become valueless but you’ll become obsolete. We need to incorporate AI into our lives, but whilst we do that we are: • Performing reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). • Digitising your intuition and turning that into data points. • Showcasing your process, bottlenecks, and workflow to AI. • You’re teaching it to go from assistant to agent. Whilst we use AI to get ahead, we’re also perfecting it to eventually replace our own collective intelligence. The same is happening with robotics in collaboration with AI to take over our labour. Our income is derived from both our: • Intelligence • Labour AI & robotics is taking over both. I found this on the internet, it sums it up perfectly for me. ## 2: What happens when we stop working? So, our jobs have been taken. AI and some robots are taking the majority of our income. That income gets distributed to us evenly in abundance. What happens to us? • Our economic value is no longer to produce, it is instead to consume. • Your income gets converted into various consumer transactions. • Without the friction of work the struggle that makes success feel earned will evaporate. • We move to the path of least resistance which is high frequency low effort dopamine hits. • Infinite consumption to replace deep satisfaction to cheap stimulation. • We lose our identity and need to fill that by joining communities, tribes, and having a common association. A trust vacuum gets created which is the perfect storm for creating a trust moat. lol, I remember watching this as a kid and laughing at these humans, now I can see exactly how we eventually become them. ## 3: Seeking signal over noise The new world of AI & robotics opens up new opportunities. How? 1: • AI drives the cost of creating information to zero. • The cost of verifying information skyrockets. 2: • AI possesses all the facts. • It doesn’t have the wisdom to connect them and explain it. 3: • AI operates at the speed of light. • Humans operate at the speed of thought, so crafting powerful opinions that trigger our biology will sell. 4: • AI is objective and neutral. • Humans hate this bland crap, we trust people, so your bias, weird taste, stubbornness, and humour becomes signal. 5: • AI will have infinite information. • Being able to curate that information becomes a signal. 6: • AI does not have reputation to lose. • We do, our signal comes from risking our reputation as collateral and creating a foundation of trust with the above. ## 4: Becoming valuable Trust, community, attention, rapport, human interaction, your face, your voice, your authenticity, all of this becomes “value”. You become valuable by providing value. By providing value you begin to harness attention. By harnessing attention you find your place in the trust moat. By finding yourself in the trust moat you’ll be able to ethically and morally sell digital products that provide real value. Look at my bro @ripchillpill, he gets this: > What does becoming valuable look like? 1: You show you’re the synthesiser, not just the analyst. • The value is in connecting the dots and the bridge that connects context. 2: You filter signal from noise • The value is that you showcase your opinions, people don’t follow you for ”information” they follow you for “better information”, you become a premium filter. 3: Building relationships • The value is that AI cannot beat human connection, a focus on deep high-trust networks where you are a peer and not just a source of content means so much more, you become a part of the team. 4: Opening the glass box • The value is showing your vulnerabilities, your process, you build in public, you create in public, and you share this process as proof of humanity. You show this work is your work. You develop trust and value. 5: Emotion • The value is being able to have empathy, persuasion, negotiation techniques, and human emotion. AI is cold, it can write the strategy but it does not know how to navigate the emotional politics to implement it. 6: High-bandwidth communication • The value is shifting away from text only communication (this is something I need to improve on ass well), text is the easiest for AI to replicate, going live, utilising video, and audio is a lot harder to fake. 7: Accountability • The value is selling your willingness to own the outcome, if it doesn’t work for you, it’s on me. All of this creates value that becomes monetisable. I actually wrote a separate article on ethical and moral monetisation in this one titled “escaping the rat race”: The common theme with that article and this one is harnessing attention as if you’re unable to demonstrate your value correctly on the internet then you won’t get the eyes you deserve. That’s why I created a $5 subscription service to my account here on X (@hooeem) that gives you access to the following premium articles. Just let me shill for a bit please boys, I’ll showcase you the skills to learn in this article shortly, let me shill, LET ME SHILL (squeaky voice maybe). That’s not all, it’s also a community of 160+ people and we have a telegram where we help push eachother forward by sharing thoughts and ideas, our community of pirates are treating everyday as a school day and our reaping the rewards already. Oh, and there’s more articles to come and weekly swipe files to draw inspiration from. How do you join? Okay, enough shilling init. ## 5: The skills you need to learn I didn’t randomly write down these skills that I want to learn in 2026, I‘m already thinking about the skills I require. The secret bit is that there are seven skills you need to learn, it’s just that I have mastered that seventh skill already… 1: Vibes coding • This allows you to ship software at the speed of thought. If you can explain it clearly, you can build it. This democratising the power of creation. Not knowing how to vibe code as a skill makes you more replaceable. 2: Create digital products • In a labour-less economy trading time for money is a losing bet as AI is deflating the cost of time. Building assets, templates, courses, software, and tools means you can monetise morally and ethically as long as you’re providing value to a unique selling point. We are going to consume more than we ever have before, be ready for this. 3: AI fluency • Most people are using AI as a search bar, but understanding context, settings, chain-of-thought prompting, and each models limitations is where you stop getting dog crap answers and start making real breakthroughs. 4: Radical adaptability • Everything you’re mastering now is constantly being eroded in the fastest time ever, the algorithm or model you rely on now can change tomorrow. Don’t marry anything, be adaptable. Remember that every day is a school day. 5: Storytelling • In a world of cold AI facts and reports storytelling becomes more important than ever. Storytelling is deeply human and is the wrapper that makes information more palatable and persuasive. It is a way to cut through the noise and trigger a biological response. 6: Using AI agents • The agentic era is upon us, I know, that sounds completely nuts, but you shouldn’t be using AI as just an assistant anymore, we should be managing them as a fleet to get shit done. I want to learn to orchestrate a digital workforce. 7: Harnessing attention • The last and most important skill. The prerequisite to everything else. • You can have the best product, the best code, but without attention they do not exist. • In an era of infinite content, attention and trust is everything. • I know I said no more shills, so I won’t shill again, I think you already know what to do. ## Summarising: Actually, I don’t think I should summarise this article, it’s more of a guide, I’ll instead leave you with a question and an action: In 5 years, if an AI and a robot can do your job 100x faster and 90% cheaper... why would anyone hire you? I hope you now know the importance of this article. If you enjoyed it, please drop a like and drop me a follow as I am aiming to help teach you all these skills in 2026 live, here’s my @ so you don’t need to scroll anywhere else: @hooeem