Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, a 30-person media and software company where every employee uses AI daily, returns to Lenny's podcast with 12 concrete predictions about where AI is actually taking the workforce. His sharpest call from a year ago, that non-technical workers were sleeping on Claude Code, held up. Now he is swinging harder: CLIs are dead, the forward deployed engineer is the most valuable new hire in any org, and every company will have a single super-agent inside Slack that all employees talk to on a regular basis.
The counterintuitive core of Shipper's argument is this: more automation produces more work, not less. He is bullish on SaaS stocks at a moment when most analysts are writing SaaS obituaries. His reasoning is structural. Users will bring their own AI tokens into apps, which compresses costs and improves margins for SaaS providers. PMs and full-stack designers do not get displaced in this framing. They become the highest-leverage people in the building. The AI job apocalypse, he argues, is not happening.
What makes the full piece worth reading is not the prediction list itself but Shipper's operational logic behind each call, built from watching 30 people run real workflows through real models every day. He also argues that software must now be built for humans and agents simultaneously, which is a design and architecture problem most teams have not started solving. That framing alone is worth your time.
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