Marc Andreessen

AI is the philosopher's stone. Newton spent his life trying to transmute lead into gold — the common thing into the rare thing. We now have a technology that turns sand into thought. That's what AI actually is.

The best career advice right now: use every spare hour talking to AI — not to get it to do things for you, but to have it teach you. Ask it to train you. Quiz you. Evaluate your answers. This is the Bloom's 2 Sigma effect, available to everyone, for free.

People talk about productivity growth from AI like it's a new thing. Here's what they miss: for the past 50 years, productivity growth has been at HALF the rate of 1940–1970. AI isn't changing a fast-moving world. It's entering a world that barely moved.

Stop focusing on job loss. Focus on task loss. Jobs persist longer than individual tasks. The executive still exists. The secretary still exists. But what they do every day has completely changed. Same thing is happening now across every role.

PM, engineer, designer — there's a three-way Mexican standoff happening. Each role now believes AI lets them do the other two jobs. They're all kind of correct. The real question: can you become a triple threat? That's where the career opportunity is.