Sacks claims vindication as AI job narrative shifted from loss to gains, matching his January prediction.
“And over the past week, you've now seen the narrative shift, I would say almost completely, towards that position.”
Sacks says Claude proficiency gives new grads a massive advantage similar to being the only one who knows spreadsheets.
“The advantage would be enormous. Now I think that that's probably a short term arbitrage because eventually everyone's gonna have to figure out how to use these tools.”
Sacks notes coding has near-complete AI automation yet software developers aren't being laid off as expected.
“We have almost complete automation of code writing. You would think that if you could look at this in a simple Malthusian way, all the software developers would be getting laid off right now.”