The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper

The last time you're on this podcast, you had this hot take that people were sleeping on Claude Code. You are so unbelievably right. The premise of this episode is we're gonna go through what else you predict will happen. The AI job pocalypse is not really a thing. I am super, super bullish on PMs and full stack designers. You guys are hiring double than people. in the past year. Which is not what people would have expected from a company that is so AI forward. I'm simultaneously extremely AI pilled and very bullish on humans. Automation is a lie. Every agent needs a human. We have so much automation, so much AI, and I also work way more. Creativity. It just feels like it's gonna be more and more valuable to stand out from all the slop that people are shipping and watching all constantly. What models do in general is they make yesterday's human competence cheap. And so it becomes commoditized. It's not valuable anymore. What humans do is we go in there and we're like, yeah, we have all this frozen. And human competence from yesterday. How do I use this like make something new and interesting? What are some predictions for how the way we work is gonna change? It's going to bifurcate in two main ways. One is everyone's gonna have at least one agent that they talk to that they can offload work to. Second is that most of the work that you do is actually going to happen on your computer in an environment like Codex or Cloud Cow. What you're predicting here is the SaaS tools will run within Codex or Cloud Code. I think the SaaS apocalypse is dumb. I would buy SaaS stocks right now. What agents do is increase the number of users of SaaS, not get rid of it.

We speed ran the CLI era. It was nice while it lasted, but I think CLIs are over. Today my guest is Dan Shipper, CEO and founder of Every. Dan and his team are building maybe the most AI forward startup out there. And as a result, are very much living in the future of how work is going to look as AI becomes a bigger and bigger part of our day to day. Everybody at their company, including every non-technical person, uses codex and co work and Claude Code to get much of their work done. And this is why, way before anybody else, Dan saw the rise of Claude Code and what is now Co-Work, which he predicted almost a year ago when he was on the podcast last time. So ask Dan to come back on the podcast to share his

Current biggest predictions for how work is going to change over the coming year for most people. We chat about what work will look like at most companies at the end of this year. How the shape of the work we do will change, and who will do best in this coming future. Slash what you need to be working on right now. Hint hint. Product managers and designers are going to do very well. Dan makes a lot of bold predictions and many quite contrarian takes that I was not expecting him to say, and we are going to revisit this conversation exactly a year from today to see how much he got right.

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