By Tess |
February 19, 2026
February 1 - February 19
a few days late to give myself time to wrap up a weekend in SF and get Enterprise out the door.
I had Claude write a lot of code, I went to San Francisco and I started poking around for job opportunities. still not sure if I'm going to take a job in the near future, but generally interested in opportunities that would be:
Enterprise is janky and the vision is all over the place. it was originally meant to be my Claude Code + Gas Town. it quickly became an LLM agent framework with its own tools, data model and UI. there's now a public web app built with that framework. the web app doesn't currently have coding tools enabled (just web search/fetch). its better thought of as a snappy and verbose claude.ai alternative that shows you what's going on under the hood and looks+feels like other tessware. it doesn't have billing, but I enabled up to 50 free signups with $5 of credits each. go check it out!
the real point of Enterprise was to see how far LLMs had come for software engineering (and indirectly, most other valuable work), and...
nothing will ever be the same again.
six months ago, it was plausible AI was a boom. LLMs might stall out, the bubble might pop, and we'd be left with just another revolutionary technology.
that didn't happen.
I believe current frontier LLMs are capable of fundamentally changing the political and economic realty of the world. the tech has been proven, now its just a matter of it percolating through the economy. at this point the question is not if particular professions or industries get zeroed, but if capitalism as we understand it survives, and if not what follows. in a few years, will humans still be worth the land it takes to feed and house them? if not, what political/economic structure ensures our well-being? this is assuming destabilization doesn't lead to nuclear war. which is all assuming nothing fooms.
or perhaps my mechanistic model of the world is flawed (likely) and everything will continue to be ~normal for decades to come.
I don't have good answers to these questions, except that now may be the most favorable time in history to invest in irrevocable util capture (doing enjoyable things with people you love).