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What's really happening inside computing when every piece of software ever built assumed a human was on the other side — and now that assumption is wrong?
The common story is that AI isn't fast enough yet. But the reality is that agents operating 50x faster than humans are bottlenecked by the exact human affordances we spent decades engineering into every tool we touch.
In this video, I share the inside scoop on the rebuilt web and what it means for your career:
• Why Jeff Dean says an infinitely fast model would only yield 2-3x improvement due to tool overhead
• How three layers of infrastructure are being replaced from faster compilers to agent-native primitives
• What human above the loop means when touching the loop only slows it down
• Where the four durable roles live for humans in an agentic economy
Leaders who keep optimizing for human-in-the-loop workflows are losing ground by standing still — every model improvement shifts the ratio against your human scaffolding.
Chapters
00:00 You and I were the most important thing in computing
02:30 Every timeout and pagination was calibrated to your pace
04:30 Jeff Dean on inference speed and the 2-3x ceiling
06:30 Layer 1: Making existing tools faster
08:30 Layer 2: Agent-native primitives replace human interfaces
11:00 Layer 3: The bitter lesson applied to the software stack
13:00 What happens to the human?
15:00 Four roles above the loop
18:00 This is a promotion, not a demotion
19:30 Start preparing now
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