The real question about AI and jobs isn't will it happen. It's what comes after.

Everyone's stuck debating whether AI takes jobs, as if that's still the open question. It isn't. I already see it happening with indie makers. AI lets one person build what used to need a small team. I'm living a version of this right now, running an entire ecosystem of tools solo that would have needed a company a few years ago.

The interesting question starts after that. If employment stops being the default structure for most people's time, what replaces it isn't mass unemployment sitting idle. It's people making things, starting tiny businesses, learning, traveling, raising families, working on projects they actually care about instead of the ones that happened to pay.

The hard part won't be finding something to do. Humans are relentlessly good at finding purpose the moment survival isn't the constraint. The hard part will be making sure people can actually afford to live while that shift happens.

That's the conversation nobody's having enough. Not whether AI takes jobs. What comes after it does.

What do you think that transition actually looks like for most people, not just builders who already have leverage?