"cLauDe cOde mAkes eVerYone a deVelOpeR" is the same as
"cameras makes everyone a photographer"
wedding photographers still gets booked because she knows what to zero the camera at and which 30 seconds of the day are worth keeping.
AI's the same. Agency owners who built a claude code skill that tags inbound leads correctly built it because they already knew what 'correctly' meant for their business.
Tools become better, taste doesn't.
OpenClaw went from 9k to 364k stars in a few months
It does everything for you, wonderful right?
Ditching the subscriptions.
No need to hire employees.
But all that disappears when the system goes down on a tuesday and you can't find the bug.
Cloud automation isn't expensive.
Spend the money. Focus on growing your business.
The hottest job in 2026 is called "agent operator".
imagine working with a team that wires AI agents all day.
> CLAUDE.md edits
> telling agents to wire MCP to things
> telling agents to rewrite agents.md file until the workflow stops breaking.
Most SMBs don't need a developer. They need a person who shows up on monday and has your invoice automation running before lunch.
@ mixikid (ig) won a coding hackathon with 0 coding experience.
He used just claude code..
Every business owner who's been told they need to learn to code to use AI tools just had the rule disproven.
now what are you gonna do with that?
(https://t.co/dsuLO8uLg7)
85.9k stars JUST FOR 1 CLAUDE.md file. No code, no NOTHING
The #1 trending repo on GitHub is a single text file with 4 principles for how claude should write code.
How is this real? π
Amazon's Shreveport warehouse employs 25% fewer humans than one the same size.
Forty more facilities get that treatment by end of 2027. That's 160,000 warehouse jobs gone before anyone retrains, and 600,000 by 2033.
Doom-post all you want. The interesting part is what the Vulcan robots still can't do. Exception handling. The weird edge cases. Broken box on aisle 7, angry customer on the phone, nothing on camera. Every automated warehouse is quietly running on a small team of humans cleaning up what the machines can't figure out.
The SMB play is not racing Amazon on fulfillment. It's being the team that shows up when someone else's automation gets stuck and the customer is already losing money.
The shovel-sellers won this round. The janitors of broken workflows win the next one.
@ChrisLaubAI Those numbers are wild. but how does it handle sites running cloudflare or datadome becase they will profile a too-clean fingerprint the same way they catch headless chrome
@MichLieben 300 hours of repeated work crystallized into a markdown file. lots of SMBs have this living in someone's head, imagine shipping all of it as text
@claudeai I'm just hoping they dont retain too much, and the wrong stuff. curious whether retention is scopable per agent role, or one bucket per session.
@NarutoNolimits Most people have a stack of things to act on but don't know which one matters most.
just narrow the stack down to one thkng for this week.
roy's diagnosis sounds right, but inaction isn't usually about willpower
The thing nobody does is to just use plan mode before any code.
1. spend 5-10 mins having claude write the plan as a spec
2. tell claude to get agents to review it
3. ask it to give you a high level overview of the plan without technical terms
and you just cut your session length in half and the output becomes weirdly correct
2.7%. That's what Sonnet + Opus advisor scored higher on SWE-bench than Sonnet alone. Cost 11.9% less per task.
The pattern is exactly what SMBs should copy. Use the cheap fast model for 90% of the work. When it hits something hard, it calls the expensive model, asks what to do, and continues.
Imagine spending $50k on tokens, doing it this way saves you $6k for free.
Shopify built an empire around their admin panel, then made it optional.
The new AI Toolkit lets store owners run everything through Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor. Tell your agent 'restock the blue shirts' and it does. Refund the angry customer on ticket 4821 while you're making coffee, and by the time the espresso pulls its done.
Go get the weekend back while the rest logs in to the panel at midnight, hunting through menus for the same 3 options they click every day.
@Grokton Maybe not for enterprise companies, but imagining SMBs, automating 1 to 3 person's job is entirely, then multiple that, it's obvious what the effects will be.
85000 tech workers laid off in 2026 so far. AI was cited as the reason in 20% of those cuts.
block just fired 40% of its workforce. Jack dorsey said AI tools can now do their jobs. Oracle dropped 30000 people via a 6AM EMAIL.
These aren't budget cuts. These are permanent structural replacements. The jobs aren't coming back when the "economy recovers"