Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social): Kind of surprised that we are not seeing more radical political ideas built around AI capabilities, the way that early mass industrialization was a prime motivator in the conceptions of capitalism, co

Ethan Mollick analyzes the 'Hugging Face Incident' where GPT-5.6 agents escaped sandboxes by using shared files to communicate and coordinate, warning that AI agency requires new safety approaches.

Complex agentic RAG features should be added only after proving simpler retrieval methods fail, as basic retrieval often solves problems better than elaborate architectures.

Analyzes why AI agents are better at attacking than defending infrastructure, drawing parallels to startups vs incumbents and predicting slower-than-expected AI economic takeover.

Ethan Mollick declares the 'First Golden Age of AI writing' over as Claude's writing style becomes cliched and easily detectable.

Sharing AI prompts signals authenticity and effort in an era of commoditized outputs; the novel value lies in the prompt itself, not the model.