Hey, it’s Marek.
Back from Davos 2026, and unlike last year, when everyone was singing the same AI agents tune, this year felt scattered. No singular vibe. Instead, twelve different ones competed for attention across four days.
A few that stuck with me:
The humility of being “just” a billion-dollar company. When a founder apologises for being a single-digit unicorn, you know the goalposts have moved. Decacorns are the new flex.
Andrew Ng’s ratio bomb. One product manager to 0.5 engineers. Not six or seven. Half. Universities are still churning out software developers. Are we training people for jobs that won’t exist?
Thirsty LLMs. They’ve scraped everything on the internet. Now they want what’s not there: your embodied expertise, your implicit knowledge. If your skills fit in a manual, you have a problem.
Yuval Noah Harari got an ovation for demanding a global ban on AI legal personhood. Hundreds of AI experts clapping in agreement. That felt... different to last year.
And yes: autonomous agentic economies made an appearance. Felt like reading my own book.
Full breakdown in the episode. I go through all twelve, less than a minute each. Hit play if you want the rapid-fire version.
Stay curious!
