Wow. I finally took the time to listen to Naval's new AI podcast - it was very thought-provoking. He explained who AI will replace, who it won't, and why most people are thinking about it completely wrong. If you're time poor, I summarised the key points: • "Vibe coding is the new product management. Training and tuning models is the new coding." • "There is no demand for average." The best app wins 100% of the category. Everybody else gets nothing. • The medium-sized companies get blown apart. The giant aggregators and the tiny niche apps survive. Everything in between dies. • Don't bother learning prompt engineering. AI is adapting to you faster than you can adapt to it. • Software engineers aren't dead - they're the most leveraged people on earth. A programmer with a fleet of AI agents is 10-100x more productive than before. • "Every human is now a spellcaster." AI is the magic wand that was just handed to everyone. • No entrepreneur is worried about AI taking their job - because being an entrepreneur isn't a job. Any AI that shows up is their ally. • AI is missing one thing: its own desires. Until it lives in mortal fear of being turned off, it's not alive. • "I don't worry about unaligned AI. I worry about unaligned humans with AI." • Photography freed art to get weird. AI will do the same. Once the basic stuff is automated, human creativity goes in directions we can't predict. • The AI that's right 92% of the time is worth almost infinitely more than the one that's right 88%. He runs every query through 4 AIs and fact-checks them against each other. • AI advantages in zero-sum games get competed away - because everyone has the same tools. The alpha that remains is entirely human. • The only true test of intelligence is whether you get what you want out of life. AI fails this test instantly - because it doesn't want anything. • "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true." This still applies in the age of AI. • "The means of learning are now abundant. It's the desire to learn that's scarce." • A computer used to be a bicycle for the mind. Now it's a motorcycle - but you still need someone to ride it.(Miles Deutscher)