AGI is Coming: How to Survive the Job Apocalypse! #shorts

19 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube Shorts monologue, Charles Cormier asserts that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is inevitable and will inevitably cause massive job disruption. He describes his personal focus on creating "AGI‑resistant" systems and agents, contrasting his approach with many founders and CEOs who he characterizes as overly optimistic or delusional about AI's impact. Cormier emphasizes that nothing can stop AGI's arrival, and therefore the priority should be designing technologies that can survive or operate despite AGI’s dominance rather than merely leveraging AI for short‑term gains.

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vibe coding and building agents. And I'm looking in that direction as well. And I may be testing stuff all the time. Everything I'm designing needs to be AGI resistant. AGI is 100% gonna happen. The job disruption, 100% gonna happen. I've talked to so many delusional founders and CEOs. I've talked to a couple of few very intelligent people, educated, that do agree with that thesis. It's 100% gonna happen. There's nothing that can stand against that. It's just like a timeline, right? So when there needs to be human adoption and so forth. So while people are looking the direction the direction of, oh, let's use AI. I'm looking the direction of what will be AI resistance, right?