# The Interesting Times

> The AI age is upon us. Buckle up, buttercup. Essays by Charlie Wood on what the AI age means for work, software, kids, capital, and the people caught in the middle. Opinionated, first-person, and written from the inside: the author runs an independent Apple-platform software studio ([DGR Labs](https://dgrlabs.co)) largely with AI agents.

Full text of every post, in one file: [llms-full.txt](https://interestingtimes.blog/llms-full.txt)

## Posts (newest first)

- [Adventures in automating and coordinating not only engineering but also marketing and support with AI](https://interestingtimes.blog/2026/08/23/adventures-in-automating-engineering-marketing-and-support.html) (2026-08-23): A first-person account of an end-to-end, mostly automated workflow at DGR Labs (an indie Apple-platform studio): an AI support bot (supportbot) reads a user's bug-report email, drafts a reply, diagnoses the bug, and files a GitHub issue; Claude Code implements and tests the fix, cuts iOS and tvOS App Store builds (v1.5.1 of the Overflight app), submits them via the App Store Connect API, writes a factual change inventory, and hands it to separate support and marketing agents (supportbot, marketroid) that stage knowledge-base and website updates; a cloud routine polls the App Store hourly and applies the staged updates the moment the build is live. The human stays in the loop as reviewer, editor, and approver and retains responsibility, but does little of the work. The post argues that many jobs will collapse into this kind of reviewer role, until rejections become rare enough that the human is kept only to hold responsible when something goes wrong. — keywords: AI agents, Claude Code, software automation, App Store releases, customer support automation, marketing automation, future of work, human-in-the-loop
- [Software at Light Speed](https://interestingtimes.blog/2026/02/02/software-at-light-speed.html) (2026-02-02): Cost structures are imploding. Time to market is collapsing. Tiny teams are becoming terrifyingly effective. And incumbents are looking obese and slow. In short, a disruption bomb has just gone off.
- [One Trillion Dollars](https://interestingtimes.blog/2025/08/26/one-trillion-dollars.html) (2025-08-26): Morgan Stanley claims that AI can cut $1 trillion in labor costs. With apologies to Bruce Springsteen, that means these jobs are going, boys, and they ain't comin' back.
- [The Whole Job Fallacy](https://interestingtimes.blog/2025/07/22/the-whole-job-fallacy.html) (2025-07-22): Among the most common misconceptions I hear about the threat posed by AI to jobs is what I call the Whole Job Fallacy, the idea that if AI can’t do my whole job then it can’t replace me. Here's why that's wrong.
- [Bringing Intelligence to Infrastructure](https://interestingtimes.blog/2025/07/09/bringing-intelligence-to-infrastructure.html) (2025-07-09): Recently I experienced something magical, but it happened in the least magical of places: the mechanical room in my house.
- [When These Guys Tell You AI is Coming for Your Job, Believe Them](https://interestingtimes.blog/2025/07/03/this-is-happening.html) (2025-07-03): Recently the heads of the major frontier AI labs—and CEOs of some of the world’s biggest companies—have all been issuing the same warning: AI is going to take your job.
- [In the Labor vs. Capital Fight, Be Capital](https://interestingtimes.blog/2025/05/19/in-the-labor-vs-capital-fight-be-capital.html) (2025-05-19): To protect against AI devaluing or taking your job, shift your personal capital-labor income split, i.e., if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
- [The Burning Building Problem](https://interestingtimes.blog/2025/05/13/the-burning-building-problem.html) (2025-05-13): Lots of smart people admit that AI may take jobs but insist that there will always be better, more fulfilling jobs to move up to. Don't count on it.
- [Preparing Our Kids for the AI Future](https://interestingtimes.blog/2025/05/08/preparing-our-kids-for-ai.html) (2025-05-08): How do we prepare our school-age kids for a future in which they're competing against AI for jobs?
- [The Fragility of Humans](https://interestingtimes.blog/2025/05/01/the-fragility-of-humans.html) (2025-05-01): We are a beautiful bird species living on a remote island with no economic predators except each other. But our best and brightest are working hard to bring invasive species of predators to our island.
- [Hello, Brave New World](https://interestingtimes.blog/2025/04/30/hello-brave-new-world.html) (2025-04-30): AI will transform the world profoundly - at least as much as did industrialization in the 19th century. But this time the change will happen much more quickly. It’s already happening, and it’s accelerating. Buckle up, buttercup.

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