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# The Good Stuff, Episode 47: Will AI Take Your Job?*Hosts:* Pete and Andy (beach setup with new flag, plane, and aggressive campfire lighting)Block just axed 4,000 people—40% of the company—citing AI, and the stock jumped 16%. Pete and Andy dig into what this signals: air cover for cutting fat, or the start of something bigger? They run the publishing analogy (monks to podcasts, cost went to zero, yet more people publish than ever), explore why "21 millionaires" beats the billion-dollar unicorn thesis, and get into the weeds on agent architecture—hands vs pipelines, deterministic vs autonomous, and why your Kanban board might be the wrong interface for robots.**Key Moments:**- [01:16] Block layoffs: 4,000+ people, AI cited as key reason, stock up 16%- [02:06] "If anything, it's not going to discourage people from going down the same route"- [06:02] Jack pushing Goose internally over a year ago—they've been prepping for this- [09:07] "A lot of companies will use AI as air cover to clear up waste and inefficiency"- [15:54] Publishing analogy: monks copying bibles → printing press → internet → cost to zero- [17:30] "Nobody has a job publishing content anymore... oh hang on, there's that guy, Rogan"- [20:03] "More people do this as a job now than have ever done it before"- [34:27] "It's not a one-man billion dollar company—it's way more 21 millionaires"- [42:02] "The work never really goes away, because the work is competition"- [46:00] "Is the Kanban the right interface for the agent?"- [47:58] Pete's review tab so full he had Wingman review and close out his own reviews- [53:51] "Hands" vs pipelines: Lara's architecture for mixing deterministic scripts with autonomous agents- [59:03] Gigi on Boris: "You still need to understand what you're doing here"- [1:13:17] "2026 prediction going strong: tooling matters more than models"- [1:15:00] Pete's daily briefing podcast—Wingman built an RSS feed and hosts it himself**Friends of the Pod:** DJ (new Mac Mini, asking about Wingman), Deadman (next week's guest), Gigi, Mark (Tales from the Crypt shoutout), Peter Randy (the combined entity)**Quote:** "Publishing used to be a room of monks you'd taught painstakingly over decades to learn to write. Then we put it all on the internet and it went to zero. And what happened? More people do this as a job now than have ever done it before. So the only thing we need to worry about is: have we solved all the problems? I don't think so."