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A super interesting new study from Harvard Business Review. A 8-month field study at a US tech company with about 200 employees found that AI use did not shrink work, it intensified it, and made employees busier. Task expansion happened because AI filled in gaps in knowledge, so people started doing work that used to belong to other roles or would have been outsourced or deferred. That shift created extra coordination and review work for specialists, including fixing AI-assisted drafts and coaching colleagues whose work was only partly correct or complete. Boundaries blurred because starting became as easy as writing a prompt, so work slipped into lunch, meetings, and the minutes right before stepping away. Multitasking rose because people ran multiple AI threads at once and kept checking outputs, which increased attention switching and mental load. Over time, this faster rhythm raised expectations for speed through what became visible and normal, even without explicit pressure from managers.

X is tracking the charge to put guardrails on the digital frontier before it outruns the law. We are witnessing a massive legislative surge as 2026 kicks off with hundreds of AI bills already tracking across more than 40 states. This builds on a record-breaking 2025 that saw over 1,000 introductions, proving that American lawmakers are aggressive about tackling the risks of the future in real-time.

No new GPU models for 2 years. NVidia to halt introduction of new models. AAA games that bet on graphics 3 years ago are gonna be in some pain.

The market is currently witnessing a massive correction, but it’s not the kind of bubble burst that skeptics predicted. For years, the assumption was that the AI bubble would pop when we realized the technology couldn’t deliver on its promises. Instead, the exact opposite has happened. The bubble that is bursting right now is the valuation of traditional Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. We are watching the “SaaS Apocalypse” unfold in real time, triggered not by failure, but by the overwhelming competence of new AI agents. When a single plugin released on a repository can cause a twenty percent intraday drop in a multi-billion dollar legacy firm (like we just saw with major legal tech incumbents), it signals that the era of selling access to basic digital tools is drawing to a close. The catalyst for this shift is the maturation of what was once jokingly called “vibe coding.” A year ago, the idea that non-technical users could simply “vibe” their way into functioning software was seen as a novelty or a source of messy code “slop.” Today, that concept has evolved into a genuine industrial force. We have reached a tipping point where AI coding capabilities allow anyone to generate enterprise-grade applications in minutes for negligible cost. This democratization effectively destroys the scarcity that allowed SaaS companies to charge high monthly fees for relatively simple databases and interfaces. Why would a business continue to pay for a dozen different subscriptions when a custom, tailored solution can be conjured into existence by an AI agent for free? This transition fundamentally alters the economics of the tech industry. For decades, the winning model was to build a software moat and charge rent. Now, those moats are evaporating because the barrier to entry for creating software has dropped to near zero. While this introduces new risks (such as the potential for massive future technical debt and security vulnerabilities in these rapid-fire creations), it also grants startups and individuals infinite “shots on goal.” A founder can now iterate through product ideas with a speed and frugality that was previously impossible, bypassing the need for expensive engineering teams just to reach a Minimum Viable Product. Ultimately, the “AI bubble” that has popped is actually the “Middleman Bubble.” The inflated valuations of companies that acted as gatekeepers to information or basic utility are collapsing under the weight of efficient, accessible intelligence. The winners in this new landscape won’t be the ones selling the shovels; it will be the ones who realize they no longer need to buy them. We are moving away from a world where we rent our digital capabilities to one where we simply speak them into existence, and the market is violently adjusting to this new reality where the marginal cost of software approaches zero.

Fucking killed them Lmao.

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