Jualande

Investor, Traveler,Spiritual Being and perplexed at what is happening in the world.

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

Paul is a Wall Street legend.

[Jualande @jualande]

I drive past this billboard some mornings with tears in my eyes.

But "Your start-up is not your only baby" has held this Founder together more times than I can count.
To whoever wrote that copy - your words found someone who needed them.

Thank you @AbsaSouthAfrica

[Jualande @jualande]

@ChrisLaubAI This is a classic systems bottleneck. We don't just need the best model, we need the entire stack:

- factual reasoning
- trust
- validation
- memory
- governance
- infrastructure

Intelligence is only useful when the whole system works.

Thanks @ChrisLaubAI

[Jualande @jualande]

Check out my latest article: The Industrialization of Cognition — Governance Architecture in an Age of Accelerated Optionality. https://t.co/OMVEBdFHfk via @LinkedIn

[Grant Williams @ttmygh]

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
— T. S. Eliot

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

An Alternate View of the Post-AI Labor Market

AI collapses software costs and automates database drudgery. This newly affordable efficiency makes demand explode, creating new complex problems that future companies with human employees will solve. Yet if job destruction outpaces creation, we risk a historical societal revolt instead of a technological breakthrough.
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The fear echoed in the Citrini Research report that AI will usher in a doomsday labor market fundamentally misunderstands the nature of business.

At its core, every business exists to solve a human problem. A hospital treats illness, automakers create affordable transportation, restaurants serve cheap fast food, and homebuilders create dependable housing. The fatal flaw in Citrini’s narrative is the assumption that humanity has a finite number of problems. Solve the current problems, and we will not create new ones.

Creates More Problems

When technological progress makes resource usage more efficient, Jevons Paradox suggests demand for that resource explodes higher.

If agentic AI brings the cost of drafting a lawsuit down to near zero, a lawyer is not going to pack up and go home. He or she is going to file exponentially more lawsuits, creating massive new demand for legal defense and judicial review.

MIT labor economist David Autor argues that while automation changes tasks, it does not destroy human work. We will use freed up time to expand what is possible and invent entirely new complex problems that require new companies with human employees to solve.

Winners and Losers

The first wave of this disruption is already driving the broadening market rally as software development costs are collapsing to zero.
Historically, companies like Salesforce and Bloomberg spent billions building desirable software products. They rely on expensive per-seat pricing to fund these massive builds.

Thanks to agentic AI, a few coders can recreate parts of a CRM or a data terminal in months for a fraction of the cost while offering it substantially below legacy companies’ current pricing. A CTO looking at thousands of per-seat licenses will easily justify tearing out embedded legacy systems to save tens of millions.

* Loser – Companies that spent a lot of money creating software.
* Winner – Companies that spent a lot of money purchasing that software.

Breaking Free From the Database

Modern knowledge work has devolved into a mind-numbing exercise in which workers are chained to a screen updating databases. Even the simplest task requires begging a database for permission, beginning with the universal frustration of trying to log in with a username and password.

Ethan Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School, champions AI for its ability to eliminate this exact workplace drudgery. Agentic AI will take over database management, freeing us to make judgment calls and actually problem-solve. The office will stop being a screen prison and return to being a hub of collaboration.

Scarcity Versus Overhead

When a job is disrupted, the outcome depends entirely on which part is automated.

For 150 years, the hard part of driving a London taxi was passing the knowledge test. This involved memorizing 25,000 streets and nearly 20,000 landmarks. This took three or four years, often riding around London on a moped. This knowledge created a scarcity of qualified drivers, allowing them to command a premium wage.

GPS automated this scarcity into a free app, flooding the market with new competitors (Uber/Bolt), which flattened wages. Technology took away the hard part of being a taxi driver, making the role less valuable.

On the flipside, computers automated tedious data entry for accountants. Because the hard part of human judgment remained, accountants used freed up time to solve complex problems, recasting their role from bookkeeper to financial advisor. Technology took away the easy part, making the worker more valuable.

The Myth of the Broken Apprenticeship

Critics argue AI will destroy the apprenticeship model by automating junior-level grunt work. Mindless data entry does not teach high-level strategy. When the drudgery is removed, young workers can focus on the hard part of the job from day one. Instead of destroying the apprenticeship, AI accelerates it.

We saw this exact fear when computer-aided design (CAD) replaced hand drafting. Senior architects worried young designers would never learn fundamentals without drawing every line by hand. Instead, the new generation learned to build vastly more complex structures. The AI transition will do the same thing for knowledge work.

Transition

This transition will not be easy. Just look at the struggle C-suite executives faced in embracing hybrid work. If leaders fought a simple change in where people sit, how will they handle the total upheaval of their embedded software and labor models? Will they stay stuck in the past, supervising the database updating? That is exactly why the most exciting companies today are run by 30-year-olds with zero legacy baggage.

Additionally, the timeline of that transition matters.

During the Industrial Revolution, technology eliminated old jobs long before new ones materialized. Economists call this brutal fifty-year gap (around 1790 to 1840) the Engels Pause, named after Friedrich Engels, co-author of The Communist Manifesto.

That gap between job destruction and job creation sparked a massive collective pushback against capitalism that the world came to know as Communism. Karl Marx directly observed this dangerous dynamic, writing that when an instrument of labor takes the form of a machine, it immediately becomes a competitor of the worker himself.

If the AI rollout creates a similar, disconnected trade-off in which jobs vanish first and new opportunities appear much later, we will see another collective pushback.

Conclusion

The post-AI labor market need not be a jobless dystopia or a science-fiction utopia. It will be a turbulent acceleration. The winners will be the agile companies buying cheap software and the workers using AI to skip the hazing of database drudgery. The ultimate test, however, is not technological. It is societal. We must ensure the gap between the jobs destroyed and the complex problems we invent is as narrow as possible. If we fail to bridge that gap, the next great innovation will not be a new software model. It could very well be a revolution.

[David Mattin @DMattin]

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[Jualande @jualande]

@nfergus @nfergus Thank you for posting, the perfect rebuttal to a frantic FOMO rising that everyone is behind if they are not automating everything today with a swarm of agents. The governance around how we evolve with this complementary tech to produce more is 🤩

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

This seems like the correct rebuttal. https://t.co/BiLpS6qLdh

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Stop It And Just Do

[Robert Herjavec @robertherjavec]

MoltBot isn’t just another cyber threat.

It’s a signal of where security is headed.

As technology becomes more autonomous, the real risk isn’t what you can see, it’s what you’ve forgotten is connected.

Cybersecurity isn’t an IT problem anymore.

It’s a leadership one.

[Gentle Man @Gentle_masc]

Jensen Huang on the smartest person he's ever met:

[Wayne Duvenage @wayneduv]

Brilliant. Watch, listen and share to this short powerful music video message: MR PRESIDENT - YOU WORK FOR US! https://t.co/D37KQcOsNz via @YouTube

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

Bold of Ramaphosa to outright admit that as a leader he lacks the vision of the average guy around the braai fire that's already 5 double-brandies deep.

[Peter Mansfield @Peterman43]

Ramaphosa must insist that he and his cabinet experience blackouts like everyone else. They will not fix it until they experience it! Them being blackout exempt is straight from Animal Farm.

[Jualande @jualande]

@unusual_whales @federalreserve Yes

[Sade @sade_without_h]

Only 6% of South Africans pay as much as 92% of all personal income tax; they also pay 85% of all VAT. According to research group Econometrix, 7 million out of 60 million fund SA’s expenditure programmes.

How does this not spell trouble?

[Bruce Whitfield @brucebusiness]

Brilliant

[Johnell Prinsloo @johnellVV]

Current situation in SA