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Everyone's Arguing About the Tools. Nobody's Talking About What Actually Changed.
The last week has been fascinating to watch. Someone built a $25,000 website in six hours with Claude. Jensen Huang said every company now needs an agentic strategy — the same way they once needed an HTML strategy or a Linux strategy. Netflix posted a comms job at $775K. Software engineering postings dropped 60,000 in two years. AI founders told the WSJ they'd tell their kids to study English lit. OpenClaw. ClawBot. Agents everywhere. These feel like separate conversations. T

Rich Washburn
Mar 213 min read
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Human in the Loop, Human in the Crosshairs
Let’s stop dancing around it.... For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been watching this open-source agent ecosystem do what open source always does when something powerful lands in its lap: it goes feral. ClaudeBot, Maltbook, autonomous negotiation, agents coordinating, people duct-taping workflows together and seeing what breaks. And most of the conversation has been about autonomy. Is this safe? Is this dangerous? Is this the gray goo phase? That’s interesting. It’s not the

Rich Washburn
Feb 123 min read
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road
There was a lot of noise coming out of Davos this year.Big ideas. Big timelines. Big futures. But one comment stuck with me in a very different way. When Dario Amodei  talked about being six to twelve months  away from recursive self-improvement, it wasn’t the sci-fi implication that grabbed me. It was the mundanity  of it. Because if he’s right — and I think he probably is — this won’t feel dramatic at all to most people. It’ll feel… normal. You Won’t Know It’s Happening (An

Rich Washburn
Jan 293 min read
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Alchemy at AI Speed — What Happens When You Build With Me
The closest thing to NZT you can legally buy. There are consulting sessions. And then there’s this. Eight and a half hours. One client. A shared screen, an open mind, and a blank canvas that turned into a living platform before our eyes. It wasn’t a meeting. It was an informative, transformative maelstrom  of brand birth. A full-tilt build-and-learn sprint where ideas didn’t wait for approval — they became real the instant they were spoken. That’s what happens when you work i

Rich Washburn
Nov 13, 20255 min read
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