Ralph Quinteroᵍᵐ

Serious question: what does "work" even look like in 5 years? When your AI agent handles research, scheduling, reporting, and first drafts... What exactly is left for humans to do? I think the answer is taste, relationships, and decisions under uncertainty. The skills that never scaled are about to become the only ones that matter.

Someone asked me the other day what my five-year plan was. I gave an honest answer and watched their face change. Because it didn't sound like a career ladder. It sounded like a lot of different things happening at once. And I think that's what throws people off. Especially people who built their careers one step at a time, one company at a time, one title at a time. That model made sense when industries moved slow and loyalty got rewarded. But that's not the world we walked into. We watched people do everything right. Get the degree. Stay at the company. Follow the path. And then get laid off in a single quarter because the market shifted. Our generation is adapting. We're building our careers differently. I know people my age running a brand out of their apartment while interning at an agency while freelancing on the side. Not because they can't pick one thing. Because touching three different systems at once teaches you faster than sitting inside one for five years waiting for your turn. That looks messy from the outside. But it's not a lack of focus. It's range. And range compounds in ways a single job title never could. The traditional path says pick a lane, get good, move up. But what if the lane doesn't exist yet? Most people ask "what do you do?" Better question: what are you building across everything you do?

my son Bailey posted on LinkedIn every single day this year. 23 years old. knows culture and its impact to businesses better than anyone I know. brands started reaching out to HIM. consistency compounds faster than credentials. the algorithm doesn't care about your resume. it cares if you ship. 💡

Deloitte and NVIDIA just started deploying AI robots on real production lines this week while most companies are still scheduling their third AI strategy workshop.

We’re still early…

Something I keep noticing. Every serious builder I know right now, and I mean the ones who already won, already exited, already don’t need to do this, they’re not sleeping. Not from stress. From side quests. Claude Code at midnight. OpenClaw tinkering. Replit experiments that were supposed to take an hour. A million tabs open, one wild idea bleeding into the next. Some of them are even random posting on X asking for recs of who are the most cracked engineers people know…like a tennis junkie looking for the best tennis pro. And when you ask them why: They don’t say “I’m building the next thing” or “I see a market opportunity.” They say something like: “I don’t really know where it’s going. I just need to understand the journey.” That line keeps sticking with me. Because Jensen Huang just said the agentic layer is the new computer. And the people with Major Ws are already living inside it, not because they have to. Because they can feel something shifting. So… What are you actually working on right now? 👇🏽 Reply if you know someone in the post-trophy crowd who’s building harder than ever.

everyone's chasing the biggest model. the builders I know who are actually shipping? they fine-tuned a small model on their own data. it costs a tenth of what the big ones cost and runs ten times faster. AT&T's chief data officer just said small language models will be the enterprise standard this year. not because they're cheaper. because they solve real problems instead of impressive demos.

Excited to announce the return of the @MiamiTechPod! Had a wonderful time interviewing @gabednconfused, 7x F1 Champion and now cofounder of Miami-based 3D battery printing startup, @Material_HM. So excited you're back & building in the 305! miamitechpod.com/from-winning-7… #miamitech #hardtech

@MariaDerchi @MiamiTechPod @gabednconfused @Material_HM YAY!!!! LFG! 🚀🚀🚀

AI agents are getting wallets, verifiable IDs, and delegated authority. Not in some whitepaper. Right now. In production. MoonPay launched non-custodial wallets for agents. Verifiable credentials are giving agents encrypted messaging. Santander gave an agent permission to spend real money. When an autonomous agent can transact, prove identity, and coordinate with other agents without a human in the loop... That's not a tool. That's a new class of entity. Not a person. Not a corporation. Something we don't have a word for yet. The governance frameworks don't exist. And 2026 isn't going to wait for lawyers. ⚡

"The skill that matters now isn't prompting or technical literacy. It's contextual intelligence." @davidfano is onto something here... A must read 👇 davidfano.com/writing/contex…

Apple's about to put a real AI assistant on a billion phones this year. not a chatbot. not a search wrapper. an agent that sees your screen and acts on what it finds. the "we're not ready for AI" boardroom conversation dies the moment your CEO's spouse is using it to run their life.

Burger King Put AI in Employee Headsets. 500 Restaurants and Counting. 🍔 Burger King launched "Patty," a voice AI assistant powered by OpenAI that lives in cloud-connected employee headsets during shifts. Patty handles menu prep questions, pushes inventory updates in real time, and analyze Full dispatch → dispatch.purplehorizons.io/p/agents-got-j… @giannidalerta @RalphQuintero

Your smartest employee spends 60% of their day copying data between tabs. Not thinking. Not creating. Not selling. Searching. Switching apps. Pulling up dashboards nobody reads. 58% of business leaders still make decisions on gut feel. Not because they're lazy. Because the tools failed them. The GUI was the bottleneck this whole time. Voice plus agents flips the entire model. You state intent, the agent does the work. No clicking. No dashboards. No "let me pull that up." The companies that win next are the ones killing their own apps first. 🪓

@jessicapeltz BOOOM!!! 🚀 Such a cool app!

@RalphQuintero Built a ski trip planning tool for the fam, obsessed! claude.ai/public/artifac…

Sunday night thought for every builder scrolling right now. Six months ago I couldn't write a line of code. This week my AI agent drafted a newsletter, scheduled tweets, ran a security audit, and caught an auth failure before breakfast. I didn't learn to code. I learned to direct. That's the new skill. Not building the machine. Telling it what to build. What did you ship this week? 🛠️ LFG!!!🚀🚀🚀

FOMA (noun) — Fear of Missing AI /ˈfōmə/ FOMA is a persistent fear that you are "falling behind" on AI and every minute you're not prompting, building agents, or vibe-coding brings you closer to inevitable replacement in the post-AGI economy. FOMA is exacerbated by listening to VC podcasts, reading clickbait articles about Open Claw, and refreshing your X feed like it's your ex-girlfriend's Instagram. Remedies to FOMA include: touching grass, talking to humans who don't know what an MCP is, actually trying to use Open Claw and realizing it's a total piece of shit, and watching as your vibe-coded masterpiece breaks eighteen different ways by Tuesday.

If You're an Entrepreneur: Stop designing businesses for 2024 scarcity. Design for 2030 abundance. Assume intelligence is free, energy is unlimited, and robotic labor costs pennies per hour. What becomes possible that's impossible today?

Finding out how much I use my phone. Broke it yesterday and the new one not coming for a week. Not comparing it to true hardships many face, but I had no idea how much I relied on that thing.

Whoever builds this will CRUSH it 👇

People ask me what tools I use to run my business. The honest answer… A Telegram group chat. A markdown file. An AI agent that never sleeps. No Notion. No Asana. No Monday dot com. The best system is the one you'll actually use every single day. 💡