#future-of-work
Every post tagged "future-of-work".
57 posts · showing 31–40
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Context Engineering Is the Job Now
Not prompt writing — that's the visible part and the small one. The work is deciding what reaches the model, in what form, at what moment, and it's where most agent failures start.
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If Intelligence Gets Cheap, What Becomes Scarce?
More useful than asking what gets cheap. Everything on the scarce list has one of two properties — and neither can be produced on demand, which is exactly why they stay scarce.
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Will On-Device Intelligence Be Free? What the Economics Say
"Free" means three different things here. Two are plausible and already partly true; the third doesn't follow, because the frontier is defined by requiring the most compute.
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Three Things That Would Genuinely Surprise Me in Two Years
More useful than predictions: naming what would count as a genuine surprise. Three of them, each identifying a load-bearing belief — and what evidence would overturn it.
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What Happens When Verification Gets Automated Too
"Agents generate, humans verify" is stable partly because verification is hard to automate. Parts of it aren't — and the part that survives isn't reviewing, it's knowing what was wanted.
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Who Adopts First, and Why It Isn't the Biggest Companies
The organizations with the most resources are frequently not the ones deploying furthest. Four things gate adoption, and large companies are structurally worse at three of them — none of which are about technology.
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What Gets Cheap Next, and What Stays Expensive
Costs are being rearranged, not reduced. Four things are getting cheap, six aren't — and a fourth category nobody plans for is getting more expensive, including maintaining everything that was cheap to create.
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Predicting Agent Capability: Reason From Mechanism, Not Vibes
"Will agents get better?" is the wrong question. Six things block any given task, only two of them move with model releases — and the other four are the ones nobody's working on.
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Novel Problems vs Recombined Ones: The Line That Matters
On genuinely novel problems you don't get an error — you get the nearest known pattern applied confidently to an adjacent problem. One classification decides where your attention belongs.
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Negotiation, Politics, and the Work That Isn't in the Ticket
It's usually called politics, said with distaste, and treated as the tax on real work. It's also the growing share of the job — and most of it is information flow and reliability rather than manipulation.