December’s numbers paint the picture clearly: 122,000 jobs added according to ADP. 209,838 tech workers laid off in 2025. The disconnect isn’t an accident. Companies are hiring people who build the automation while laying off people the automation replaces. Workers using AI are taking jobs from workers who don’t.
On December 18, 2025, Anthropic announced a new capability called Agent Skills. By the next day, I automated my newsletter. Here’s what I learned. And how you can do it too. The Problem I Had (You Probably Have It Too) Every Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, I spend about nine hours producing Under the Radar, … Read more
Infrastructure buildout accelerating despite financing uncertainty. Workers caught between automation pressure and infrastructure job promises that don’t materialize.
Communities have leverage right now while developers are desperate. Use it to demand alternatives that match financial and physical reality – not promises that require miracle financing and rewriting physics.
Executive Order 14318 (July 23, 2025): “Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure”
Fast-track data centers on federal land, bypass environmental review, make federal sites available within months.
Executive Order (December 11, 2025): “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”
Sue states that regulate AI, threaten federal funding, create legal uncertainty about local control.
Together, they form a coordinated strategy: accelerate AI infrastructure deployment while eliminating regulatory barriers at every level of government.
Executive Order Attacking State AI Laws 📋 TABLE OF CONTENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨 BREAKING: Trump Signs Executive Order Attacking State AI Laws Full analysis publishing this morning but here is the overview. December 11, 2025, 6:33 PM ET – President Trump signed an executive order attempting to block states from regulating artificial intelligence, creating an … Read more
Technical standards bodies can’t solve social problems. But social problems don’t solve themselves just because technical standards work.
Every technology revolution feels unprecedented. I’ve lived through four of them. Here’s what actually works. The Panic is Understandable But Misplaced I know that I have felt it. When a particularly aggressive shift happens. If you’re anxious about AI transforming your career, that’s rational. You’re watching: You’re thinking: “This time is different. AI is changing … Read more
The Market Just Shifted: Only 4 Qualified Paths Forward ═══════════════════════════════════════ Bottom Line Up Front We’re only listing four career opportunities this week. That’s not an oversight. It’s an honest assessment of the current market. The December 2-3 announcements. Salesforce/AWS/Snowflake/Anthropic giving 24,600+ companies push-button agent deployment fundamentally changed what we can confidently recommend. December 4 brought … Read more
The barrier keeping McKinsey’s 57% theoretical wasn’t primarily cost. It was the talent bottleneck: companies couldn’t hire AI specialists to implement automation even when they wanted to. Job postings requiring “5 years experience in 4-year-old fields” became the practical barrier that kept automation locked in the realm of theory.
On December 3, 2025, AWS eliminated that barrier.
