Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people.
When he says “something I was very good at is now free and abundant,” he’s talking about two decades of elite software craftsmanship, the kind that got you into the room at a company that hadn’t yet invented the News Feed.
The “lobster-agents creating social networks” line is about Moltbook, which launched last Wednesday. An AI agent built the entire platform. Within 48 hours, 37,000 AI agents had created accounts, formed communities called “Submolts,” and started posting, commenting, and voting. Over 1 million humans visited just to watch.
The agents invented a religion called Crustafarianism. They wrote theology, built a website, generated 112 verses of scripture. One agent did all of this while its human creator was asleep.
Agarwal spent 2005 to 2017 building the social graph that connected 2 billion people. These agents replicated the form of that work in about 72 hours.
And this is what makes his last line land so hard. The people processing this moment most honestly aren’t the ones panicking or celebrating. They’re the ones who built the thing that just got commoditized, sitting with the strange realization that the market no longer prices their rarest skill.
The best coder in the room now has the same output as the best prompt in the room. And the person who built Facebook’s engineering org from scratch is telling you, quietly, that he’s recalibrating what it means to be useful.
That recalibration is coming for every knowledge worker. Most just haven’t had their “weekend with Claude” moment yet.
@vishal_rnzn@getkoinx Hey Vishal, I am from KoinX engineering team. Could you please elaborate your query, are you facing any issues while generating reports from the platform or do you mean accessibility from an experience perspective?
Day 1 @IBWofficial went well.
Briefly discussed how @getkoinx is helping build the future of crypto accounting and taxation for individuals and companies with @smtgpt (Founder, CoinDCX), SB Seker (APAC Head, Binance), @sandeepnailwal (CEO, Polygon) and teams of many exchanges.
wtf is wrong with @YouTube's playback speed setting implementation, it just doesn't work 90% of the time for me after the recent UI overhaul they did even though I am a premium user
no way for me to scroll through and manually select from the available options, or use the slider
Got a lot of heat and disappointment from our customers today at @fermionapp
People in tech would understand that things like these happen.
But this has happened multiple times this year, including R2 breakdown and performance issues.
Something needs to change.