Benjamin Ryan

Floppy Disk Collector 💾
Author of Agents Per Person 📖

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

AI layoffs are no longer hypothetical.

Over the past few weeks:

• Block announced ~4,000 layoffs while saying AI allows smaller teams to do more
• Pinterest and Dow linked job cuts to AI‑driven restructuring
• An enterprise AI firm cut over a quarter of its workforce citing AI efficiency
• Analysts estimate tens of thousands of tech jobs already affected by AI transformation

This pattern is exactly what I explore in my book.

The shift isn’t a sudden “robots replace everyone” moment.

It’s something more subtle:

Smaller teams.
Higher output per person.
AI agents quietly absorbing tasks that once required entire departments.

That is the core idea behind “Agents Per Person.”

The real impact of AI won’t just be new tools.

It will be a structural compression of organisations, where autonomous agents multiply what each person can produce.

We’re now seeing the first real-world signals of that shift.

If you want to understand what this means for careers, companies, and the future of work:

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

@Aurelien_Gz agreed - now we need to option to use this as a real life mini map (with side quests)

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

Is Dario on the way out?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff! First $SPCX trade complete 🚀

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

@0xSero Welcome.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

Everyone heading back to Codex be like:

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

I can appreciate how Codex will keep running to the end of the task even when you run out of usage.
Claude simply F's off.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

@AnthropicAI Yea, nah.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

@Scobleizer @AnthropicAI Agreed - I switched back to Codex late last night as I was over the usage limits hitting so fast....
Found my groove again with Codex.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

BREAKING
Fable 5 has been disabled for all customers!
It was fun while it lasted everyone.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Google Earth @googleearth]

Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. https://t.co/hQP0No142P

We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...

Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

@DudespostingWs Would be amazing to see someone cover The Adventures of Batman & Robin from the Sega Mega drive. Blessed to have experienced it in my childhood.

[han @hanhanhan_kim]

Patent systems are first-to-file. It's produced a quiet two-tier system: well-funded companies file in 48 hours. Everyone else waits weeks.

Today we're announcing @fearn_ai's $5.5M seed to end that gap. 🧵

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

2am - my Fable 5 usage reset reminder goes off

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

@sahill_og For those who having been humming this all day like me:
https://t.co/HhWyDMW52Q

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

@steipete @BradGroux That’s white box….
What is it hiding

[Sahil @sahill_og]

Me prompting Claude fable 5 at 3 am be like:

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

@elonmusk First frame got me thinking its the Titanic :D

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

Oh no Fable 5.... don't do this to me.

[Thariq @trq212]

Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!

TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.

I didn't touch a video editor.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanx]

@bijanbowen Destruction derby for win XP!!