Hey, it’s Marek.
Yes, you’re hearing from me again: the written post went out on Friday, this is the podcast version with extra context and one data point that genuinely surprised me.
So I built my son a Chinese character app in two evenings. Never looked at the code. The newsletter covers the bricklayers-and-architects metaphor: every profession is splitting into execution (automatable) and architecture (more valuable than ever).
In the podcast, I dig into something I found while preparing to record. Searches for “Apple developer program” on Google Trends spiked 20x in June 2025, right after OpenAI and Anthropic released their coding agents. What happened? Non-coders suddenly realised they could build things.
I also get into why software houses with tens of thousands of developers are starting to look like pre-industrial sweatshops, and why that parallel should make us both uncomfortable and optimistic.
Computer science graduates now face higher unemployment than art history majors. For once, nobody’s asking the art historians what they plan to do with their degree.
Give it a listen.
Stay curious!
