Casey Newton
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Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
Last week on the Platformer podcast, Replit's Amjad Masad predicted that within three years, we'll be using fewer apps and more agents — with the agents using apps on our behalf.
Zuck's Meta Manifesto, Data Center Wars, and AI Slop Pushback
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Replit's CEO: "You Don't Need to Code Anymore"
Last week on the Platformer podcast, Granola's Chris Pedregal told me we are only 5 percent into the AI transformation of work.
This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
Last week on the Platformer podcast, Thomas Paul Mann predicted that within a few years, as much as half of the software on your Mac could be software you…
The case for making your own apps
In the second episode of our second season of the Platformer Podcast, Raycast co-founder and CEO Thomas Mann offers a clear-eyed critique of commercial…
He tried 200 to-do apps so you don't have to
Last season on the Platformer podcast, we explored what AI means for jobs — including the risk that huge numbers of them might soon go away.
Why Amazon is hiring 11,000 junior employees
In the seventh and final episode of our first season of the Platformer podcast, AWS CEO Matt Garman explains why he's still bullish on hiring junior…
Why this founder isn’t hiring junior engineers anymore
In the sixth (and first live!) episode of the Platformer podcast, Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda argues that argues that we are living in "the…
How to help people who lose their jobs to AI
In the fifth episode of the Platformer podcast, Brookings senior fellow Molly Kinder argues that the AI jobs debate is stuck in a useless seesaw between…