Meta installed software to track employees' keystrokes.
To train AI on how they work.
This week Meta capped those same employees' AI budgets.
Internal cost: billions in 2026.
First you study the worker.
Then you ration the worker.
Guess what's third.
I dropped out, failed 3 times, and the 4th business worked.
Bootstrapped, no VC.
The thing that actually mattered:
You can have all the money in the world.
Don't respect it, you'll burn it.
Spending like tomorrow doesn't matter is a tell.
A tell you're about to fail.
Nobody owes you a career ladder anymore.
The companies that promised one are the ones running layoffs.
The ladder was always a story.
Build skills that move with you, not a title that only works in one building.
Loyalty to a logo is the worst-paying job there is.
Dario Amodei, whose product just caused the SaaSpocalypse:
'Those who don't identify their moats will have a really hard time.'
Your code isn't a moat. AI writes that now.
Your judgment and your relationships are.
Build those.
Canada keeps saying it wants sovereign AI.
Then funds 250,000 'AI-related jobs' and indigenous AI programs.
Those are good things.
They are not GPUs.
Sovereignty isn't a grant program.
It's racks, power, and chips you own.
The kind nobody can flip off when an American lab cuts your access.
We got the lesson last week.
We're spending on everything except the chokepoint.
Salesforce is not an AI company, Marc.
It's a senior retirement home for enterprise data.
They pay you to starve their data to death.
Everything you buys - Heroku, Slack - turns into dirt.
You're not relevant in AI, leave it and give us a break.
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Today we’re introducing keyless auth for Claude Platform: authenticate via browser with the CLI, or let workloads use their existing cloud identity (AWS, GCP, Azure, or any OIDC token provider).