Steve Yelderman

my friend at Anthropic said they’re routing your requests specifically to the dumbest model (his name is Steve and they made him by distilling a CVS receipt)

This is counterintuitive for some, which is why there’s a paradox named after it. But if you lower the cost of something that was previously supply constrained, demand for that thing goes up. Software engineering is just one of the easiest examples to contemplate. The process goes like this: every small business, every IT team, every large enterprise sees that engineering can now drive vastly more output. They then start to consider all the new things they can build or automate. They even test building prototypes themselves. They only get so far with that approach because they realize there are still 50 other tasks that go into building software and maintaining it. So they start to hire more engineers to do that work. All of this for work they never would have considered automating or having software for if AI didn’t exist. So yes, automating tasks, in plenty of fields, will lead to demand for experts, not less.

21/ Verification is the ultimate complement to abundant intelligence—and it is structurally scarce. In the agentic economy, durable advantage belongs not to those who generate output but to those who can certify it.