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#Labor share

How income splits between work and ownership.

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AIOct 19, 2026 · 7:58 PM ET · Simon Willison

My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little logic puzzles. The trickier the puzzle, the more you got paid. But even pretty simple puzzles were worth a lot of money because...

Builder score 67Why it scoresRules judge: AI item; Topics: agents, labor share; Source: Simon Willison.
InfrastructureOct 17, 2026 · 8:03 AM ET · Construction Physics (Brian Potter)

Icon’s fundraising, employment in China’s solar industry, grid-scale battery reliability, Tesla’s flying roadster, and more.

Builder score 92Why it scoresRules judge pick: Infrastructure item; Topics: energy, labor share, policy; Source: Construction Physics (Brian Potter).