My March 2026 best business reads roundup
Exponentially More Code Means What? – Scott Belsky
What happens when the cost of coding drops to zero and software becomes disposable? What it means to build for a world where anyone can spin up tools for niche or short‑lived problems?
\Twin Essays On Why Machines Aren’t Killing Your Job (For Now)
Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did – David Oks
Automation doesn’t automatically remove labor. You feel the real force of a technology when it creates new paradigms, not when it merely replaces tasks.
The Cyborg Era: What AI means for jobs – Séb Krier
Why it's unrealistic that AI will replace all human labor, but we're likely heading into a long “cyborg” period where humans and AI operate together.
AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think – Michelle Kim, MIT Technology Review
AI has reshaped the way people play, sometimes for the worse. It has also accelerated the rise of female Go players, who are rapidly climbing the ranks.
We Have Learned Nothing – Jerry Neumann
Don’t put too much faith in your favorite entrepreneurship podcast. After decades of “startup science,” there’s still no evidence that any of it makes new companies more likely to survive. That might be liberating news.
\Bonus read: Blaming AI is fashionable, but often lazy. It works for layoffs, and now (disturbingly) for wartime atrocities. An Iranian school was bombed because an old human‑maintained database flagged it as a military site. A cautionary tale
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying – Kevin T Baker, The Guardian
(Photo of the month: On March 25, a group of women in a Los Angeles courtroom heard the landmark verdict that ruled Meta and YouTube had designed addictive products. I doubt they expect that the combined outcome of the LA and New Mexico trials may lead to a harsher, less‑encrypted web in the years ahead)
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