2026 Uncertainty

This feels like a strange time. As someone who makes the vast majority of my income from software engineering, I wonder for how much longer my labor will hold value. Parts of me think I ought to pivot immediately to more AI resistant forms of labor, for instance practicing esoteric bodywork. That would align with my passion for Ninjutsu and my interest in deep, transformative work.

On the other hand, the value of capital seems higher than ever right now, and I have many investment allocations I would like to make, given the resources. Another part of me thinks I ought to just make hay while the sun shines, collect as much money as I can on the SWE path while I can, and then do the career pivot later with better capitalization.

I wonder how much having a head start in non-computer based career paths will matter.

If I continue doing computer work, I feel like I ought to work on AI. Nothing else seems especially important for me to work on, because everything I can imagine working on directly gets indirectly solved by AI. Towards that end I've applied myself to Math Academy's mathematics for machine learning course. Anthropic seems like the place to work for me, I feel the most alignment with their approach to alignment.