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Episode #82: What Will Be Scarce in an AI World, The Real Cost of Vibe Coding, The End of the Software Engineer
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- Jun 4, 2026
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Summary
This week on The Learning Corner, economist Alex Imas makes a counterintuitive case that AI will not eliminate human labor but instead relocate scarcity toward a "relational sector" of nurses, teachers, craftspeople, and care workers where human presence is the product itself. Lisa Kostova shares one of the most honest accounts of vibe coding gone wrong, arriving at a major conference with 40 ready buyers and a product too broken to sell. We close with Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, who argues the title of software engineer is dissolving but predicts 100 times more people will be writing code in the near future. Three reads, one big question: what does human work actually look like in an AI economy?