On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing down the most powerful AI models so safety could catch up. On Monday, Trump had a go at him. On Tuesday, Dario was at Salesforce's Dreamforce with Marc Benioff, talking enterprise AI. Salesforce's Claude integration is now in beta. Apparently, the apocalypse still needs a CRM. To be fair, wanting safer future models and selling today's tools can coexist. The whiplash is still funny. These frontier models are the labs' most capable AI. They can help write software, work through research, and use tools to get things done. If stronger models help us tackle harder research or build better software, I'm all for it. I just don't think every job needs the next superintelligence. There is already plenty to do with what we have. This meme pretty much captures how the week feels. The part that isn't funny On Monday, September 14, reports described Oracle employees receiving layoff emails as early as 6 a.m., telling them that day was their last working day. People build lives around those jobs. That part isn't funny. Oracle is also expanding its AI infrastructure. That doesn't prove an AI system directly replaced every person who lost a job. But it makes the question of who benefits from all this progress feel very real. I keep thinking about the rat race. It feels harder to get out when the rules of work keep changing underneath you. Personally, I'm doing whatever I can to earn more right now. Useful work, products, experiments. I want some of that effort to turn into income, and some of that income to turn into assets I own. Land, especially, is important to me. So is building a business that doesn't depend entirely on selling my time. That doesn't make every plot or every business a good investment. I just don't want my entire future to hang on a single source of income. The window feels narrower to me. I can't put a deadline on it, and I don't want to pretend I can. But I would rather act now than keep waiting for a clearer signal. A small workshop of my own I also bought a 3D printer: a Bambu Lab A1 Combo. I want to try more than little desk toys: cable organisers, phone stands, custom mounts, simple prototypes, and maybe enclosures for future Jarvis experiments. The plan is to use GPT-6 to help with setup, work through design ideas, and find existing models I can print or adapt. The Combo also gives me multi-colour printing to play with. I'll still need to learn the printer and check the designs myself. A convincing AI answer isn't the same thing as a part that actually fits. That is what excites me: turning an idea into something I can hold. Giving my AI something physical, while learning a skill that exists outside a chat window. Useful things first. Ridiculous things soon after. If I find something genuinely interesting or useful along the way, I'll share it with you. Harshith
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