Claude’s Agent Chaos

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"The 18-Month Career Is Here" by Katie Parrott/Working Overtime: When will AI make your job obsolete? Well, there's hope in this chaos. Katie Parrott offers a survival guide for the new reality where skills expire faster than milk: Follow the friction, build taste (not just tools), and leverage your knowledge. Read this if you want to stop panicking about your job disappearing and start spotting where to build the next bridge while your current one burns.

"Vibe Check: Claude's New Agents Are Confusing as Hell" by Katie Parrott/Vibe Check: Ever tried managing a team of brilliant specialists who can't talk to each other and don't know how to use the printer? That's basically Claude's new subagents feature. Katie takes us behind the scenes of an Every offsite where team members stayed up past midnight testing Anthropic's latest AI advancement. Read this for a refreshingly honest look at the messy reality behind the polished AI keynote promises.

"How I’m Preparing My Parents—And Myself—To Be Fluent in AI" by Vivian Meng: Vivian Meng learned a crucial lesson about technological change while staring at a vending machine in China, unable to buy water with her father because she didn’t have the right app. Where the internet age demanded technical literacy, the AI age requires epistemic fluency, or knowing not just how to use tools but also how to question and guide them. Read this for practical ways to navigate AI without losing dignity or agency in a rapidly changing world.

"When AI Gets It Wrong—And How to Know" by Michael Taylor/Also True for Humans: We all may be using AI to help us make business decisions, but sometimes the machines are wrong. In this essay, Michael Taylor identifies three scenarios where AI consistently fails: when it's working with outdated information, when it's optimizing for social approval rather than truth, and when complex situations require real-world experience. Read this if you want practical solutions for each limitation and a framework for knowing when to trust the algorithm versus when to trust your gut.

🎧 🖥 "Best of the Pod: Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything" by Dan Shipper/AI & I: Ever wonder how Dwarkesh Patel prepares to interview some of the biggest names in tech? Simply put, he uses AI to “compound” his intelligence, revolutionizing how he reads, learns, and builds a coherent worldview. 🎧 🖥 Watch or listen to the full interview on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

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