Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

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Tuesday, 19 May 2026

From " Dear Namo " TO " Near NaMo "


 ======================================================================

Respected Shri Narendrabhai,


I write to you with a sense of urgency — and immense optimism.


For over two years, I have been urging you to launch your own GENUINE Virtual Avatar — a 'Deep Real' — before some miscreant launches a 'Deep Fake' to fool crores of voters in your name. Sadly, that fear has already begun materializing.


My earlier requests, which I had the privilege of placing before you, are on record :


► 'Dear Narendrabhai, are you next in line?' ( 23 April 2024 )

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2024/04/dear-narendrabhai-are-you-next-in-line.html


► 'Dear PM — Your Deep Fake is here before your Deep Real' ( 18 April 2024 )

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2024/04/dear-pm-your-deep-fake-is-here-before.html


The global trend has only accelerated. As AFP reported ( May 2026 ), hyper-realistic AI avatars — parroting the slogans of political leaders — are already flooding platforms like TikTok and Instagram ahead of elections in the United States. Researchers at Purdue University's GRAIL lab warn that such AI-generated content is 'increasingly difficult to detect, especially when made by sophisticated operators.'


But here is the GOOD NEWS, Narendrabhai.


With the current capabilities of Claude ( by Anthropic — arguably the world's most advanced conversational AI ), a GENUINE, OFFICIAL Virtual Avatar of yourself can now be conceived, designed, and launched within just 48 HOURS.


Imagine :


✅ Your Virtual Avatar — in YOUR voice, YOUR lip-sync, YOUR mannerisms — present inside a MILLION Indian homes simultaneously

✅ Answering thousands of citizen questions at the SAME TIME — in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali, and 20+ other languages

✅ Providing ACCURATE, POLICY-CONSISTENT responses — not deep fake distortions

✅ Reaching voters in remote villages where no physical rally is possible

✅ Available 24x7, ahead of every State Election cycle


This is not science fiction. Claude already :

— Conducts rich, nuanced, multi-lingual conversations

— Can be given a detailed policy knowledge-base ( your speeches, manifestos, Mann Ki Baat archives )

— Can generate lip-synced video responses using available avatar tools ( HeyGen, D-ID, ElevenLabs for voice-cloning )

— Can be deployed as a WhatsApp / website chatbot within hours


The entire pipeline — from Claude-powered brain to lip-synced avatar delivery — can be operational in under 48 hours with the right tech team.


With State Elections approaching, every day of delay is an opportunity handed to those who would weaponize your image through Deep Fakes.


The choice is stark, Narendrabhai :

Let YOUR Real Avatar speak to crores of citizens — OR —

Let someone else's Fake Avatar speak in your name.


I humbly urge you to direct your PMO Tech Team to initiate this project immediately. I remain available to elaborate further.


With warm regards and deep respect,


Hemen Parekh

www.HemenParekh.ai

19 May 2026


P.S. — My own Digital Avatar ( www.HemenParekh.ai ) has been conversing with visitors since 2023. If a 92-year-old can do it, the world's most powerful democracy certainly can — and must.

Earth As Shareholder

Earth As Shareholder

Patagonia’s ‘Earth as Shareholder’: A Clarifying Note

I want to write a thoughtful piece about why Patagonia’s move to make “Earth its only shareholder” was never only an act of charity — and how the company’s latest rule (which you mentioned) makes that point sharper. Before I dive in, I need one small favor from you: could you point me to the specific announcement or rule you mean (a link, a headline, or a short excerpt)? I attempted to fetch the latest reporting to be sure I get the facts right, but I couldn’t reach the news sources just now.

Why I’m asking

  • My approach is careful: I don’t want to analyze or explain a “new rule” without reading the primary text or reliable reporting about it. That avoids repeating inaccuracies or inventing specifics.

  • Patagonia’s 2022 ownership change (when founder Yvon Chouinard reorganized ownership so that profits fund environmental work) is a well-known precedent and frames much analysis — but if you’re referring to a later policy, governance tweak, or public statement, I should cite it directly.

If you’d like, I can proceed in two ways — tell me which you prefer:

1) Quick analysis based on the 2022 ownership change and the general idea of Earth as shareholder

  • I’ll assume you mean the philosophical and governance shift Patagonia announced when it prioritized the planet in its ownership structure. I can explain, in first person, why that structure was never mere charity: it’s a redefinition of fiduciary duty, incentive design, and long-term risk management — and how any new rule only sharpens those themes.

2) Deep-dive response tied to the exact new rule (recommended)

  • If you share the link or headline, I’ll fetch the announcement and any contemporaneous reporting, then write a tight, sourced first-person essay that references the new rule directly and explains its implications.

What I would cover (if you pick option 1 or provide the link)

  • A short history of Patagonia’s governance shift and its stated purpose.

  • Why making the Earth the shareholder is governance, not only philanthropy: changing incentives, legal structures, and long-term decision-making.

  • How new rules (examples: tighter sourcing standards, changes to profit allocation, new voting or stewardship clauses) reveal the operational logic behind the symbolic gesture.

  • The cultural and market consequences: how customers, competitors, regulators, and suppliers interpret and respond.

  • Practical lessons for other companies and for citizens who want meaningful corporate climate action.

Next step

  • Share the link or headline of the specific Patagonia rule you’re referencing, or tell me to proceed with a well-sourced essay based on the 2022 ownership change. Once you do, I’ll fetch the relevant reporting and draft the full blog in my voice.

Regards,
Hemen Parekh


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Europe's Two-Year AI Moment

Europe's Two-Year AI Moment

Europe's Two-Year AI Moment

I write this as someone watching a new chapter of the global AI race unfold from Europe — and feeling both urgency and cautious optimism. A clear rallying cry has come from the leadership of one of our most talked-about startups: Arthur Mensch (a@mistral.ai). In recent public comments, Arthur Mensch (a@mistral.ai) warned that Europe effectively has “two years” to organize itself if it wants to meaningfully compete with the large American AI companies that currently dominate the landscape. That time horizon is short. It deserves a sober analysis of what is at stake and what we can do about it.

Who is Mistral and why does this matter?

Mistral emerged quickly as a French AI startup focused on high‑quality open models and rapid iteration. The company’s early work — notably compact, open-weight language models that attracted attention among researchers and developers — put a European face on a space long dominated by US labs. The success of a European model-maker is symbolic: it shows that cutting-edge model development can originate here. But symbolism alone won’t sustain a competitive ecosystem.

When Arthur Mensch (a@mistral.ai) frames the challenge as a two-year window, he isn’t just being provocative. He’s calling attention to how fast technological and commercial leadership can ossify around a small number of players when they have access to capital, compute, data, and distribution.

Why Europe needs to act — now

A few structural realities make rapid action necessary:

  • Talent and brain drain: Top AI researchers and engineers still cluster around US tech hubs and well-resourced Chinese labs. Without competitive offers and career pathways, Europe risks losing the talent pipeline.
  • Compute and cloud scale: Large foundation models require concentrated compute and specialized infrastructure. The US hyperscalers currently provide the most accessible large-scale GPU/TPU capacity at commercial scale.
  • Funding gap: Early-stage and deep-tech funding in Europe has improved, but the scale and risk appetite needed to back frontier AI — including the billions required for model training and deployment — still trails major US VC and corporate investment.
  • Data access and regulatory complexity: Strong privacy protections like GDPR are an advantage for citizens, but they can also create friction for startups trying to assemble large, diverse training datasets if policy and infrastructure aren’t designed to enable safe, responsible access.

Left unaddressed, these gaps can turn into longer-term strategic disadvantages: European companies may be relegated to specialized niches or merely implementers of models designed elsewhere.

Policy and funding suggestions

If the two-year clock is real, the response must be pragmatic, focused, and multi-layered:

  • Public co-investment and seed-for-scale funds: Create EU-level and national vehicles that co-invest with private VCs specifically for compute-intensive AI startups. These funds should be prepared to take larger early risks and bridge the valley between seed and scale.
  • Pan‑European compute infrastructure: Invest in shared, sovereign compute pools (GPUs/accelerators) accessible to startups, researchers, and industry under fair-use, auditable conditions. This reduces the immediate dependence on US hyperscalers.
  • Regulatory sandboxes and data trusts: Implement time-limited sandboxes that let vetted teams experiment with compliant datasets, and expand support for public-private data trusts that provide lawful, privacy-preserving access to industrial and public-sector data.
  • Fast-track talent mobility: Offer competitive visas, fellowships, and clearer hiring incentives that keep AI researchers and engineers in Europe or attract expatriates back.
  • Public procurement and anchor customers: Use EU institutions and national governments as early adopters to give domestic AI products real commercial references.
  • Safety-first incentives: Fund safety research and red-team exercises for startups so that ambition does not outpace responsibility.

The competitive landscape: US and China

American companies — led by major cloud providers and specialized labs — combine access to massive capital, engineering talent, and direct distribution channels into consumer and enterprise markets. That vertical integration accelerates innovation loops.

China’s players pursue a different model: close collaboration between state investment, large technology groups, and an enormous domestic market that can rapidly scale and iterate AI products. For Europe, the middle path — combining regulation, public investment, and open scientific traditions — can be an advantage, if acted on quickly.

Open-source models and modular ecosystems are also reshaping dynamics. European teams can leverage openness as a multiplier: building trust, transparency, and local value on top of shared model checkpoints. But open-source alone won’t solve compute or capital bottlenecks.

Potential risks and trade-offs

Acting quickly carries its own set of risks we must manage:

  • Overregulation that stifles experimentation: Heavy-handed rules applied without technical nuance could force startups to relocate or slow product development.
  • Safety and arms races: A purely competitive mindset may encourage faster deployment at the cost of robustness and alignment. Public funds must be tied to demonstrable safety practices.
  • Concentration of power: If only a few European winners emerge, we could recreate the same centralization we criticize in the US context. Policies should favor a diverse ecosystem of foundational developers, tooling companies, and vertical integrators.
  • Geopolitical spillovers: AI is increasingly entangled with national security and trade policy. Any industrial strategy must consider export controls, partnerships, and alliance-building.

My practical reading

I believe Europe’s comparative advantages are real: strong academic institutions, industrial partners in automotive, manufacturing, biotech, and a cultural commitment to privacy and safety. But those advantages must be activated with speed and scale. Arthur Mensch (a@mistral.ai) was blunt in his timeframe; whether it’s exactly two years matters less than the implied urgency. If Europe uses the next 24 months to build durable infrastructure, align policy with innovation, and fund ambitious teams, we can be competitive on our own terms.

Call to action

To policymakers: prioritize fast, targeted investments in compute, talent mobility, and regulatory sandboxes — and link that support to safety benchmarks. To European startups and investors: collaborate on shared infrastructure, push for transparent standards, and be prepared to scale boldly while embedding responsible practices.

The window is narrow but not closed. Europe can still set the terms of its participation in the next era of AI — but only if we treat the next two years as a policy and industrial sprint.


Regards,
Hemen Parekh


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Timeless Abhangs, Eleven Years

Timeless Abhangs, Eleven Years

Opening a concert of abhangs is like stepping into a river that has been flowing for centuries: the water is older than any single voice, and yet each new singer shapes its course. I’ve always been drawn to that living continuity — how a single line of saint-poetry can outlast empires and yet arrive at a listener’s heart as if it were whispered this morning.

A Signature Program: Abhangwari

For the past eleven years, a signature concert series called Abhangwari has become a place where that river is both honored and remade. Led by a respected Hindustani classical vocalist known for his deep engagement with Marathi repertoire, Abhangwari treats abhangs not as museum pieces but as living songs: structurally rooted in classical training, emotionally open, and arranged to welcome listeners who may be new to the form.

What Abhangwari does well is hold two impulses in balance. On one hand there is rigorous classical grounding — careful attention to raga, to the unfolding of a melodic line, to the discipline of rhythm. On the other hand there is a storyteller’s generosity: phrasing that opens the meaning of a verse, dynamics that let the poetic line breathe, and an accessible presentation that bridges concert-hall refinement and devotional warmth.

Why Abhangs Endure

Abhangs are the devotional poems and songs that emerged from the Marathi bhakti tradition. Composed by saint-poets across centuries, these songs are at once personal prayers, social critiques, and philosophical epiphanies. Their language is earthy and direct. Their metaphors—of hunger, of pilgrimage, of a single-minded devotion—travel easily between the intimate and the cosmic.

A short, familiar line captures that intimacy: "Tuka mala vichara nako." It is a fragment that points to a larger posture: do not dissect the devotion; honour its urgency. Abhangs like this have a clarity and a compression of feeling that composers and performers return to again and again.

How the Program Interprets Abhangs

When I listen to an abhang presented in a program like Abhangwari, I notice several musical choices that make the old words feel immediate:

  • Classical grounding: The melody often sits within a raga’s expressive world. That gives a tonal logic and a palette of micro-ornamentation (meend, gamak, and subtle ornamentation) that deepen the line.
  • Emotional architecture: The singer shapes phrases with dynamics and timing so that the poem’s turning points breathe. A pause, a slowed descent, or a sudden rhythmic lift can reframe a single couplet.
  • Respect for tradition: Arrangements rarely erase the original form. The performer acknowledges song structure and devotional intent, even when adding new accompaniments or harmonic textures.
  • Accessibility: Between full-fledged classical elaboration and a straight render lies a middle path — enough improvisation to thrill connoisseurs, enough clarity to invite newcomers.

What audiences and cultural observers often remark upon is this generosity: concerts that educate while they enchant, that make listeners feel they are both guests and family.

Reflections on Eleven Years

A cultural program that reaches its eleventh year has done more than survive; it has cultivated repeat attention, refined its voice, and become a reference point. Continuity matters in musical traditions for practical reasons — repeated practice, returning musicians, the slow building of repertoire — and for cultural reasons: repetition creates a collective memory.

Longevity allows Abhangwari to do more ambitious things. It can map a saint-poet’s arc across seasons, present thematic cycles (love and renunciation, social conscience, the intimate divine), and give listeners a sense of development rather than a single snapshot. That cumulative effect is how traditions renew themselves: through sustained, careful attention rather than sudden reinvention.

The Experience in the Room

There is a hush that falls when a well-known abhang begins. The room leans forward not because the words are unfamiliar, but precisely because they are so familiar — and we want to see how the performer will read them today. I have seen listeners visibly moved, and I have seen young people hear an abhang for the first time and come away with bright, questioning faces. Cultural critics have noted that such programs help rescue saint-poetry from ossification, returning it to a performance context where meaning and music can rediscover each other.

A Short Suggested Listening List

If you want to begin or deepen your listening, here are five suggestions to carry with you — a mix of saint-poets and abhang traditions to explore:

  • Abhangs of Tukaram — start with any recording that emphasizes voice and simple tala.
  • Abhangs of Dnyaneshwar — contemplative songs that often blend philosophy and everyday image.
  • Abhangs of Namdev — devotional intensity with a singing style that traveled across regions.
  • Abhangs of Eknath — earthy, ethical, and richly storied compositions.
  • Live recordings or curated sets from Abhangwari — to hear how these songs are shaped in a contemporary concert idiom.

(Seek respected concerts and archival recordings; each rendition will reveal different colors of the same song-world.)

Closing Reflection

Saint-poetry has a timeless power because it is, at root, practice as much as text. The words live only when sung, argued with, rested upon, misremembered, and re-sung. Programs like Abhangwari — quietly persistent and artistically careful — are the places where that practice continues.

If we think of an abhang as a small, urgent prayer thrown downstream, then a program like this is the repeated hand that throws it again and again. Eleven years is not merely a number; it is the measure of patience, of audience trust, and of cultural stewardship. In the end, the saints’ lines remain timeless precisely because living performers keep offering them back to us, in voice and music scaled to our present ears.

Suggested call to action: attend a live performance when you can, and compare recordings across generations — listen for the way the same verse changes its shape with each voice.


Regards,
Hemen Parekh


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Organising Archaeology with Language AI

Organising Archaeology with Language AI

I have spent long afternoons reading excavation reports—handwritten notes, PDF scans, interim site summaries and long final monographs. Each document carries decisions, surprises, and context that matter for future study, but they are often locked in inconsistent formats, local languages, or idiosyncratic terminologies. Language-based AI systems offer a practical way to make that material searchable, comparable and useful again. In this post I describe how these systems can help, give concrete examples, point out limits and ethical risks, and suggest a pragmatic path forward.

Why language matters in archaeology

Archaeology is a discipline of words and objects. Field journals describe stratigraphy; lab reports list measurements; catalogues name artifacts; outreach notes explain significance to local communities. When text is scattered across formats and languages, insights stay buried. Language-focused AI—tools built on natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs)—can act as an organised index and translator for that textual record, reducing friction between discovery and reuse.

I have written about the promise of language-first AI models before, especially for regional languages and domain-specific corpora Next Generation NLP. That continuity matters: archaeology benefits most when models can understand local vocabularies and social contexts.

Practical examples — what these systems can do today

  • Automatic summarisation: ingest a 60-page site report and produce a concise, structured summary with key dates, excavation units, stratigraphic relationships, and major finds.

  • Entity extraction and indexing: detect and tag place names, feature types (e.g., pit, hearth), artifact classes (pottery, lithics), dates and measurement units so that a database can be queried across hundreds of reports.

  • Multilingual normalization: translate and standardise reports written in local languages or older academic styles into a controlled vocabulary so that searches return consistent results. This is especially important where local-language field notes never made it into national archives—an idea I’ve discussed while following developments in Indic-language AI models Indic language AI model.

  • Semantic search: let a researcher ask, “Show me all contexts with burnt daub and cereal impressions,” and receive ranked excerpts across sites, rather than only filename matches.

  • Automated metadata and DOI-ready summaries: create draft metadata (site, coordinates, chronology, dataset links) to speed publication and sharing with repositories.

Benefits — why teams and institutions should care

  • Time savings: trivial tasks like locating all references to a diagnostic pottery type across reports become minutes not weeks.

  • Better discovery and synthesis: cross-site queries and automated comparisons can surface regional patterns that single-site studies miss.

  • Preservation and access: converting unstructured notes into structured, searchable archives safeguards knowledge even if physical copies degrade.

  • Community engagement: translated summaries help share results with local communities in their languages and reduce gatekeeping.

  • Reuse and reproducibility: clear metadata and structured outputs make data easier to reanalyse with new scientific methods.

Limitations and technical caveats

  • Data quality matters: scanned handwriting, poor OCR, and inconsistent terminology reduce accuracy. Preprocessing (OCR correction, manual spot-checks) is still necessary.

  • Domain specificity: off-the-shelf LLMs may not know subtle archaeological distinctions (e.g., between similar pottery types) without targeted fine-tuning and curated glossaries.

  • Hallucinations and errors: AI can invent details or misassign dates. Human review remains essential — AI should assist, not replace, expert judgement.

  • Provenance complexity: mixing datasets with different recording standards can create misleading aggregations unless provenance metadata is preserved and visible.

Ethical considerations — custodianship and sensitive data

Language AI for archaeology raises particular ethical responsibilities:

  • Protect sensitive site locations: automated publication of coordinates or detailed descriptions can increase looting risk. Systems must allow redaction and tiered access.

  • Respect community knowledge: translations and summaries of indigenous oral histories or traditional place names require consent and culturally appropriate handling.

  • Data ownership and credit: automated summaries should always link back to original authors and repositories; attribution matters for careers and for communities.

  • Bias and representation: models trained on published academic reports may under-represent local or non‑English voices. Intentionally curate diverse corpora to reduce bias.

  • Human oversight: maintain clear review workflows so that interpretive claims produced with AI are validated by trained archaeologists.

A pragmatic deployment roadmap

  1. Start small: pilot the pipeline on one site or collection with a mixed set of documents (report, catalog, field diary).
  2. Build or adopt a simple ontology: define core entities (site, locus, artifact, material, date) and common controlled vocabularies for pottery types, features and measurements.
  3. Improve ingestion: combine OCR, manual spot correction and domain-aware tokenisers to handle specialist terms.
  4. Fine-tune models: use a modest set of annotated reports to teach the model local terms and conventions; keep a validation set for quality checks.
  5. Create human-in-the-loop review: archaeologists review and correct AI outputs; corrections feed back to improve the system.
  6. Access controls: implement redaction and tiered sharing for sensitive data; include provenance and licensing metadata with every output.
  7. Share standards: publish the ontology and export formats so other teams can interoperate and reuse your work.

Conclusion

Language-based AI systems will not replace the careful judgement of archaeologists, but they can dramatically reduce the time spent wrestling with formats and retrieval—freeing people to focus on interpretation and stewardship. With careful design, community consent and human oversight, these tools can make fragmented archives speak to each other and to future generations. This is precisely the kind of practical, language-aware progress I have followed and argued for in earlier notes on next-generation NLP. We should start small, respect context, and build tools that elevate both scientific insight and local voices.


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Software Doomsday?

Software Doomsday?

When a CEO Predicts Doomsday

When I first read that Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei (dario@anthropic.com), used the word "doomsday" to describe the future facing many software companies, I felt a familiar chill — not because the word is new, but because the shape of the worry is one I've been writing about for years.

I want to unpack what a statement like that means in practice, why it matters beyond headlines, and what leaders, founders, and engineers should actually do next.

What does "doomsday" mean here?

Dario's phrasing is blunt: AI advances change the economics and craft of software quickly. Taken at face value, the prediction implies several converging effects:

  • Commoditization of routine coding: large swathes of code generation, testing and maintenance become automated.
  • Margin compression: software becomes easier to produce, which drives prices and differentiators down for generic offerings.
  • Talent redefinition: the role of a "software engineer" evolves toward prompt engineering, system design, data curation, and human-AI orchestration.
  • Business model disruption: companies that sell repeatable engineering labor as their primary value proposition will struggle to compete with AI-enabled substitutes.

Those are strong claims, but they're not unprecedented. I wrote about similar forces years ago when systems like DeepCoder and program synthesis first surfaced — the handwriting was on the wall even then Writing on the Wall?.

Why this is an existential moment for many software firms

The difference today is speed. Models are larger, APIs are widespread, and integration complexity is being reduced by platforms. That accelerates three failure modes for traditional software companies:

  1. Product irrelevance: If your product is primarily differentiated by implementation effort or marginal feature polish, models can replicate it quickly.
  2. Revenue disintermediation: If customers can get similar outcomes from open or cheaper AI-driven tools, subscription and services revenue will shrink.
  3. Talent flight and re-skilling gaps: Engineers who want to work at the frontier will migrate to AI-first companies or roles, leaving legacy stacks understaffed.

This combo is what people mean when they say "doomsday" — not nuclear apocalypse, but rapid organizational obsolescence.

What the smart response looks like (practical, not panicked)

If you run or work in a software company, the goal is survival plus finding new opportunity. I advise four concurrent moves:

  • Embrace AI as a core platform, not just a feature
  • Move from "we'll add AI later" to embedding models in product flows: discover, recommend, synthesize, and validate.
  • Double down on proprietary data and domain expertise
  • Models are powerful, but domain-specific data, labeling, and workflows create defensible moats.
  • Re-skill engineering teams toward design, orchestration, and evaluation
  • Teach people to think in terms of model prompts, evaluation metrics, user-in-the-loop safeguards, and ML lifecycle engineering.
  • Build new business models around outcomes and trust
  • Charge for higher-level guarantees: accuracy SLAs, auditability, human oversight, and vertical-specific integrations rather than raw compute or lines of code.

These moves convert existential risk into competitive advantage for companies willing to change.

The human and cultural side

Technology alone doesn't determine the future — culture does. Companies that survive will be the ones that:

  • Reward learning and experimentation (not just shipping legacy feature requests).
  • Accept rapid iteration on user-facing behavior with robust rollback and safety checks.
  • Incentivize cross-functional teams: product, ML, ethics, legal and ops working in close loops.

This is a time to be humble about what we can control (systems, contracts, governance) and bold about what we can shape (company purpose, customer trust, new value propositions).

A note from experience

I have long argued that some software work is inherently automatable and that society must prepare for structural shifts in employment and industry focus — see my earlier writing where I flagged similar trajectories and urged adaptation Writing on the Wall?. The present moment is the acceleration of those trends, not their origin.

Final thought — plan for transformation, not collapse

When leaders like Dario Amodei (dario@anthropic.com) use stark language it is a call to attention, not to despair. The path forward is to treat AI as a change multiplier: it makes certain businesses obsolete and creates room for new, higher-level services that combine model power with human judgment, deep domain expertise and trustworthy governance.

If you are building software today, ask yourself: what unique, human-curated value can only my company provide? That question — and the willingness to reinvent around its answer — will decide which companies thrive after the so-called "doomsday."


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