Common feedback when I write about AI: "if job loss is a real risk, then tell people WTF to do beyond, 'generate more revenue than you cost your employer!'"

Answer: if there were a process or playbook to make yourself irreplaceable, AI agents would follow it. And replace you.

Over and over again, agents like Claude Code exhibit relentless productivity, exhaustive research, and mind-bending speed. But there's one thing they constitutionally lack: innovative solutions in the face of apparent obstacles.

Humans who lack that gear are absolutely fucked.

Just had a really clever idea, but because I now work with 5 instances of Claude instead of actual humans—and knowing they'll all forget how smart I just was in a median 125k tokens from now—it feels kind of hollow.

So FYI, I just had a great fucking idea. Feelin' cute.

Glad to see John Roberts finally take meaningful action on America's affordability crisis. Just like the framers intended.

Honestly after 15 years of hiring reporters to write but not report, maybe it's time we tried hiring them to report but not write cleveland.com/news/2026/02/journalism-schools-are-teaching-fear-of-the-future-letter-from-the-editor.html

If you're with me on team #CommitsDontMatter, then you might be interested in this Claude hook that just auto-commits after every turn with the title coming from Claude's result and the body containing the originating prompt gist.github.com/searls/841837b0e3ecd0461c292a0d1639a49f

At first glance, it looks like Apple has provided podcasts hosts no documented way to host video for their podcasts except through a third-party hosting provider. Boo. podcasters.apple.com/support/5593-how-to-publish-video

One year into living with Tesla Full-Self Driving and: it's good.

The improvement from v13 to v14 is remarkable. Tap Start and it pulls out of the garage, drives you, and parks itself. Another tap and it drives home, opens garage, parks itself. More advanced than people assume.

I'm developing apps for Apple platforms for the first time in 16 years so stop me if this is nuts, but the best feedback loops I've managed are when I've made the Mac build the primary one. No simulator jank. No waiting on devices.

Claude Code doing a better job self-verifying

I like my doctor but his office is always full of sick people.