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A mill owner ran the finest factory in the valley. At its heart sat a great steam engine, and from it ran one long iron shaft down the length of the building, with belts dropping to every machine. Because every machine had to hang off that one shaft, the whole factory was built around it: tall, narrow, dark, and arranged not by how the work should flow, but by where the belts could reach. One day a stranger arrived carrying a small humming box. "I sell electricity," he said. "Power you can send anywhere, through a wire." The owner's eyes lit up. "Wonderful! It's so dark in here. We'll hang light bulbs over the workers." So they did. The lights glowed. The owner told everyone at the guild dinner, "We use electricity now." WE ARE ELECTRICITY FORWARD AT THIS COMPANY! Later he went further. He tore out the steam engine and put one giant electric motor in its place, spinning the same old shaft, turning the same old belts, in the same dark building. The work went exactly as fast as before, and he wondered what all the fuss had been about. Across the river, a younger rival bought the same electricity. But he asked a different question: "If power can go anywhere, why is my factory shaped around a shaft?" So he knocked the building down. He built it low, wide, and full of windows. He gave every machine its own small motor and arranged the floor in the order the work actually moved. When one machine stopped, the rest kept running. Within a few years his factory made three times as much with half the people. The old mill owner, standing under his light bulbs, never understood how he'd beaten him. After all, they both used electricity, right? A new power poured into an old design will only reveal up your old mistakes. At Sagan, we’ve been calling this “paving the cow paths” (google it). When factories electrified in the 1890s, most did exactly what the mill owner did, swapping the steam engine for one big motor. The economist Paul David found the real productivity boom didn't arrive until the 1920s, roughly 30 years later, once a new generation redesigned factories from scratch around electric power. After building hundreds of agents for small, medium , and very large businesses - I am now of the belief that most businesses are hanging light bulbs - and I’m not going to enable it anymore. If we aren’t redesigning the plant from the ground up… it is not worth the opportunity cost of our very very capable/fast/cost effective AI Engineers. Fortunately for you dear reader… I have a plan. If this final plan doesn’t work, and work very well, I plan to stop selling lightbulbs to factory owners… and I’ll just go start launching factories to eat the lunch of the dinosaurs electrifying their steam factories.

“You have to discipline yourself, and through this discipline will come some level of achievement, and from this achievement will come your pride.”

I’m living in the future

holy fuck I have yet to see a agent get stop motion just right and this one does

In case you think, the first one is a fluke, this was his from two episodes ago

What would this have cost me ten years ago? Three months and a production suite and a team. Now it's my nuts editor from Argentina and a couple days of time and a bunch of tokens. I will also note that if you gave me twenty years, I couldn't be this creative.

Here is why I think most people are idiots. You see that AI can make some edits and insert some B-roll. So you say, I don't need a podcast producer anymore. I'm going to use Claude! Then you see the goddamn art an Argentinian editor who is totally AI-pilled can make, and you realize the bar is gonna get raised and YOU’RE GONNA GET LAPPED

THIS IS NOT WHAT I WAS PROMISED ON YOUTUBE BY THE PERSON WITH A PODCAST MIC

It's 11 p.m. The kids are asleep. And you're on the couch, building an app with AI. You saw somebody online make a quoting tool in an afternoon, so you figured you'd try. Three hours later, it almost works. Tomorrow you'll show your team. They'll nod and say it looks great. Two weeks from now, nobody will be using it. I know this night well, because I've had a lot of them. And I'm not alone. Right now, owners everywhere are turning themselves into part-time developers. Their CFOs are teaching themselves to code. Their sales managers are building automations instead of selling. Everybody's excited, everybody's building, and almost nothing they build lasts. What I had to learn: THE MOST EXPENSIVE DEVELOPER IN THE COMPANY IS YOU. And you're not even a good one. Neither am I. I'll be writing about this more in the coming weeks - because we finally figured it out... and have 100Xd real usage at our company, and it is completely different than what is out there.

@CaryHawkins_ you're back and i learn about it from a like on a tweet not even a text. i see. i won't tell otto

A deck this nice deserves a 3d render

you died of dysentery

what someone will pay for it

how can I rotate my keys if deployments are halted

I'M TRYING TO GIVE OUR DEVS A HEART ATTACK.