Demitri Spanos, in the first of a promised series of conversations with Casey Muratori called ‘Wading Through AI’:

I have many friends who are in the VC business — investors, managers, recruiters, whatever. I would be surprised if those people could climb down from the level of commitment that they have put into transforming the workforce with AI.

The hundreds of billions flowing into ‘transforming the workforce with AI’ is either a bet on fewer jobs, a bet that AI lifts revenues, or both.

The smart knowledge workers I know aren’t waiting for the outcome. They anticipate disruption and are trying to get ahead of it. I’ve seen a few reactions: using AI to build apps and diversify income, encapsulating experience into AI agent skills and marketing themselves as fractional hires, publishing first-time research papers on AI, and open sourcing AI-adjacent dev tools to establish credibility. No carpenters—yet.

Maybe this time we’re wise enough to know that when big cheques are written, they will get cashed.