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AI's permanent underclass doesn't match the empirical data
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a16z's Anish Acharya on the AI era's "permanent underclass" and the reasons he doesn't buy it: "It's a funny dark fantasy that we seem to have as Silicon Valley collectively. Things have never been better, really by almost every measure." "By how distributed all the opportunities are, by the kind of technology we have access to, to the types of ambition we're allowed to have, and to the number of companies independently working on things that are winning." "The last era of tech was a lot…
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysanSep 6
The "permanent underclass" is a dark fantasy Silicon Valley keeps telling itself. @illscience (GP at @a16z) points out that by almost every measure, things have never been better, and the job-loss story hasn’t played out as people thought. Radiologists have been “cooked” for 20 years and demand keeps rising. Open engineering roles are at all-time highs. And unlike the mobile era’s winner-take-all markets, every layer of the AI stack has ~20 strong competitors. We discuss: 🔸 Why you don’t need to be chronically online to keep up 🔸 The "/loop make me happier" opportunity in AI 🔸 Why every company is becoming a series of loops 🔸 Why moats are discovered, not designed 🔸 What's the Birkin bag version of your product? Listen now 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdIyXiq2DTY
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