The "lumpenproletariat," according to " The Communist Manifesto," is "the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society." Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can't enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.
AI can now schedule meetings, summarize calls, draft emails, and write serviceable first drafts. That's not the threat. The threat is what it reveals. If your value as a manager lives mostly in tasks, AI will eat it. If your value lives in people- coaching, clarity, and meaning-AI becomes your time-maker. The task trap (and why AI breaks it) For years, many managers equated "being indispensable" with staying busy: approving requests, forwarding documents, chasing status updates, taking notes, and nudging people about deadlines.
I also plan on retiring someday, and I'm guessing I'm not the only senior developer who plans on doing that. In fact, I feel very confident saying that 100% of senior developers will, one way or another, stop coding at some point. Now, math is hard, I know, but it seems incandescently obvious to me that to be a senior developer, you must first be a junior developer, and if there are no junior developers, then we'll eventually run out of senior developers.
The pressure is mounting on business leaders to harness AI to make work faster, cheaper, and more efficient. That may thrill investors, but for employees, it could mean fewer jobs around the world. At the $320 billion software giant SAP, there will likely be a need for fewer engineers to deliver the same-or even greater-output, according to the company's CFO Dominik Asam.
Artificial intelligence has changed my business entirely. The majority of my business is ecommerce-based, and AI has allowed me to automate many of the most time-consuming tasks. This shift hasn't just saved me time; it's made daily operations more efficient and enabled smarter, data-driven decisions that have elevated both productivity and customer satisfaction. In the early days, I spent nearly every waking hour creating products and listing them online.
Move it one way and it disappears, move it the other and it clutters my high-priority list. Working on dozens of projects like this, manual tagging quickly becomes a time sink that's inconsistent and error-prone. AI project management tools now solve this by auto-tagging tasks based on content, context, and even conversations. Categories stay accurate, searches are faster, and your team can finally focus on the work instead of admin.
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In numbers, an overwhelming 77 percent of businesses using Anthropic's Claude AI software showed signs of automation, like "full task delegation," according to the released by the company this week. Only 12 percent of AI usage appeared to leverage the tech in an augmentation role, like learning or asking the bot for feedback. The report was based on data from Anthropic's application programming interface, or API, through which customers access the AI software.
iBuying was never out of vogue, Rabois said, addressing comments about Redfin's and Zillow's exits from the space. It was out of vogue because Redfin and Zillow didn't know how to do it. We were always successful. We minted free cash flow every year I was involved in the company. However, it's very complicated and very difficult to do iBuying well, but the value proposition of certainty, transactional speed is incredibly compelling to Americans.
The platform's three-pillar approach-Connect (embedded finance network), Intelligence (workflow optimization), and Automate (AI-powered workforce optimization)-has enabled partners to reduce operational resources while achieving faster speed to funding. With over $1 billion worth of offers made annually through their platforms, Lendflow's modular architecture allows partners to use individual components or scale comprehensively, supported by 50+ live AI agents that automate manual lending processes from document extraction to applicant communications.
Arguments about how we should consider some measure of accommodation (to fascism, to AI) abound, and some are even reasonable-sounding. These are powerful forces with their hands around the throat of our futures. Certainly no one can be blamed for doing what it takes to nudge those hands back a few millimeters so you can get enough air to breathe.
Zown's model aims to overhaul the way real estate agents work by introducing AI and specialization. Most of the time that a Realtor spends is actually on lead generation, lead nurturing, cold calling, knocking on doors rather than negotiating or getting deals done. So, he says, Zown divides the agent role into separate functions. One is, when it comes to educating the buyer about the market Then you have an agent who actually shows you properties.
Our perspective is that the holders of risk are the beneficiaries of lower costs and reduced risk, but it takes the whole ecosystem to participate. One thing about the Fannie Mae survey is the shift in business priorities from cost cutting to streamlining. Cost cutting and streamlining are related, but cost cutting carries a negative connotation does it mean cutting service, quality or jobs? For years, there was resistance and even regulatory hesitation.
Not long ago, building an app meant endless spreadsheets, coding, and clunky tools. Today, 70% of new apps are expected to be built with low-code or no-code tools-nearly triple the 2020 rate. Modern AI platforms allow anyone, coder or not, to create powerful automated workflows. But with so many options, finding the right fit isn't simple. You need a tool that matches your team's skills, integrates with your stack, and delivers real value.
The way most industry leaders think about international ecommerce has radically changed over the last few years, primarily because of the emergence and widespread availability of AI tools. However, automation isn't the only technology shaping the industry. Various other technologies are impacting consumer behavior and the quality of the shopping experience that online businesses can offer. A DHL study revealed that 59% of shoppers purchase items from retailers outside their home country worldwide.
Peeler said, compressed weeks of talent acquisition work into minutes by automating job posting, candidate screening and interview scheduling tasks. That really informed my thinking around how AI could be disruptive beyond smaller point solutions by stringing things together.
In July 2025, Perplexity launched Comet, a groundbreaking AI-powered web browser designed from the ground up for this era of intelligent automation. Comet integrates intelligence at its core, transforming browsing sessions into seamless, conversational workflows.
