Claude Code is bad UX that tries to rip work out of people's hands instead of actually being aligned and figuring out how to increase their differentiated expertise. It's about renting your future from Anthropic rather than building it or embodying more knowledge yourself.
Our startup implemented four day work week without changing comp, and submitted various data as part of a recent Boston College study. Both wellbeing and output increased in statistically significant way with a team of only 15. Hard to avoid confounding with agents adoption, but overall highly recommend it.
It makes no sense to do broad layoffs during sweeping technical change that affects you, your customers and your competitors all at once. Makes way more sense to cling to your best people and re-train them in order to preserve your soul and institutional knowledge. I think deep layoffs + regret as opposed to re-training is actually uniquely American culturally and not a thing elsewhere.
I've met several of the people on the first few pages on the watch list, and they are among the sketchiest Silicon Valley people I've met. The criteria are plausible.
I'm glad this story is spreading. On one hand, super cool. On the other hand, this is probably the #1 most risky aspect of LLMs wide distribution. Someone working on proteins with good intentions creating the next Covid-19 or worse.
Work: https://convictional.com