a16z GP: The 'Permanent Underclass' Is a Dark Fantasy, Radiologist Demand Still Rising
illscience · x · 2026-09-07
- a16z General Partner Illscience pushes back on Silicon Valley's 'permanent underclass' narrative in an interview with Lenny Rachitsky: radiologists have been predicted to be replaced for 20 years yet demand keeps rising, and open engineering roles are at all-time highs.
- Unlike mobile-era winner-take-all markets, every layer of the AI stack has 20 strong competitors.
- Other topics: keeping up without being chronically online, the '/loop make me happier' opportunity in AI, every company becoming a series of loops, and why moats are discovered rather than designed.
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