Rob Rothman

Tech Recruitment & Ramblings on a Post AI Future

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

@insLn98190 @ryancarson You could probably just put an extra parameter in there to spin up a sub-agent once it hits x % on the context window. Works well for most other skills that use large context as well.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

This is of course didn’t all happen immediately. It entailed many hours on the phone. So they’re not only stealing my money, but stealing my time (which essentially is like stealing $$).

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

IRS tells you that you owe them “x” (you don’t). You pay them anyways after threatening to put liens on your property.

They then admit you owed them nothing. You ask for a refund, and they say, ‘You’ll get it on your next refund next year.”

Whats wrong with this picture?

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

Real talk

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Ken Griffin went home on a Friday "fairly depressed" after watching AI agents at Citadel do work that used to take teams of PhDs in finance months to complete. Done in days.

His words: "These are not mid-tier white collar jobs. These are extraordinarily high skilled jobs being automated by agentic AI."

This is the head of one of the most successful hedge funds in history saying the people he pays seven figures to analyze markets and structure deals are being replaced by software that works in hours instead of months. Not theoretically. In his own office. Right now.

The Coatue deck we covered earlier this week called agents "the biggest unlock" in AI. Griffin just confirmed it from the buy side. The shift from copilots to agents is not a future event. It is already happening at the highest levels of finance.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

How was it possible that Siri is still this bad even the voice transcription on iPhone is a light years behind a bunch of other products. I’m writing this tweet using Siri and it doesn’t even know where to put proper punctuation.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

Vibe Coding may be more addictive than video games

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

@alexplank @broderick You apparently weren’t around for AOL 2.5 and 9600 baud modems

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

@zuess05 Simple answer - they haven’t completed stopped hiring junior engineers. But they have considerably.

Those who can’t land FT work will have to build their own companies. And the barrier to entry is as low as it’s ever been. Not ideal for everyone though.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

People starting to realize that if their livelihoods are going to be at risk in a couple years from now, they better be heavily invested in the companies that are phasing their jobs out.

Or maybe I’m just thinking too deeply about it and people are simply greedy :)

[gum @gumsays]

This is fucking insane, Anthropic is now priced at a $1.7 TRILLION valuation

People are paying a 81% premium just to get access to it on Solana

The top holder onchain is up $2.6M

[Tenobrus (→vibecamp) @tenobrus]

maybe this is not yet clear, so let me state it plainly: as of right now Anthropic, and really a small number of individuals at Anthropic, has the capacity to directly attack and cause major damage to the United States Government, China, and generally global superpowers. government agencies like the NSA do not have internal models or defense capabilities that outclass frontier models. if they chose to do so, they could likely exfiltrate top secret information from government systems, gain control over critical infrastructure including military infrastructure, sabotage or modify communications between members of government at the highest level, and potentially carry on activities for some time without detection. the thing about having access to a huge number of zerodays your adversaries don't know about is it gives you a massive asymmetric advantage.

they did not exploit this to gain power or destabilize the world order. they publicly released the information that they had these capabilities and worked to mitigate these flaws. you should be grateful american frontier labs have proven themselves remarkably trustworthy and concerned with the public good. but it's critical you understand we are in a new regime. private entities now have power that directly rivals and impacts the government's monopoly on influence and violence. and anthropic is certainly not the only one, there's little chance OpenAI's internal models are far behind.

this trend will accelerate on virtually every dimension, not slow down. my prediction for how it plays out is the relatively imminent seizure and nationalization of labs by the US government, sometime over the next two years. it's very tough for me to see how they accept the existence of this kind of threat. but this adds a whole new class of governance issues, as then we've handed these extremely wide-reaching capabilities from private entities to public ones.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

I bet if I told you NVDIA & Micron’s forward PE ratio is lower now than it’s been over the past 5 years you wouldn’t believe me… but it is

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

Is this real life

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

Back to the Stone Age.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

It's interesting to see the very first signs of 'HR Leaders' coping with the reality of Agents. The most recent LI post - 'Don't name your AI Agent a human name'.

Totally scared & unprepared for what's to come, and I don't necessarily blame them.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

https://t.co/jpA6eDkjEP

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[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

The correct analogy would be like trying to throw punches at a tornado. Not gonna happen.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: AOC and Bernie Sanders are introducing a ban on AI data centers and other hyperscale data centers, per MorePerfectUnion.

The ban would remain until Congress passes new AI legislation.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

Claude is unusable right now

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

😅

[Laura Hudson 🇨🇦 @latterdaylaura]

My super strong parenting opinion is that while the kids are awake, you come last.

No spending all of Saturday golfing. That’s family time. 6 am tee time only, maybe.

Wanna go to the gym? Go after the kids go to bed, or wake up at 5.

In a few short years, they’ll be out of the house and you’ll have all the time in the world for your own stuff. It’s okay to come last for a while.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

@toddsaunders Would disagree. SaaS companies still hold domain knowledge and have the same tools smaller teams have. So combined domain knowledge + business context/data + more devs who use Claude Code would still be an advantage for them. They’ll have to adapt fast though.

[Rob Rothman @robrothman]

One of the things I do love about getting older is not giving a shit about 90% of the things in your day that don’t matter.

And you can just be totally honest about it.

[Ujjwal Chadha @ujjwalscript]

Software engineering in 2026 isn't finished. It's just different.

Actual good quality software still needs good engineers and time to build, deploy and maintain.

If it wasn't true, Anthropic, X, Google wouldn't still be hiring thousands of engineers.