The application layer is gone. It's time to stop competing with AI on knowledge work and reconnect with what truly matters - our desires, our communities, and the physical world.

We are consuming the internet in order to make better agents. We are consuming the data, the news. We are pinging ourselves all the time in order to make our agents better. What is this? Are we LLMs now? We are living on an agent loop ourselves.

In the past couple of weeks, we have seen tremendous change in the world. The change is so big, so rapid, so enormous - a wave coming toward all of us. I think most people don't even know what's happening. There's maybe one or two million people standing at the shore, at a nice viewpoint, seeing the tsunami coming. But the vast majority of society doesn't even know what's going on.

The reason this is important: we, the people on the front line, need to build the right stuff for society to flourish. Our generation - millennials - we're going to be the leaders of this huge shift in society. If we're not going to adapt, if we continue not knowing what we want, not knowing what to do, if we remain so disconnected from ourselves and the situation in the world and pursue just quick gains, this world is not going to last.

The Application Layer Is Gone

If you are a builder - no matter what you build, even if it's a physical company, not just AI - and you are working on the UI of your website, working on the buttons and how things look, trying to sell to people: my friend, this is the wrong place to build. The application layer is gone. That's it. Stop building for the application layer. We don't need it.

There is no reason to create UIs anymore. Nobody wants them. Nobody's going to use them. If you don't have an API, an MCP, a CLI, your software doesn't matter anymore. The agent is the new UI. It's the new interface for humans to talk to. We don't need any more shiny objects to click on. We just talk with our agent, and our agent needs to have the right tools.

Remember the OSI model - the layers of communication, how networks and computers talk to each other? On the top, there was the application layer. Now we have a new layer. Call it agents, call it LLM cloud code, whatever you want. Consumers always talk with the highest layer. Always. Stop building for application layers. The consumers are not going to be there.

Build for Agents, Not Humans

In the next two years, what we're going to focus on as a society of builders is helping enterprises document all their stuff and turn it into an agent. MCPs everywhere, creating the right SOPs for everything, building the right stuff.

The next level of software for 2026 is going to be: let's wrap the agent with all the right capabilities and give it to the people. APIs are still a great thing to do. When you build a landing page - doesn't matter what company - build it for agents. Don't build it for humans anymore. Agents talk a different language, not a visual language. They need the data, the text, the right messages for them.

Come Back to the Real World

If you want to focus on something that will create impact, that will create value, that will bring you joy: stop pursuing gold in this AI rush. Stop pursuing the gold. My recommendation for the normal builder: focus on the real world. Come back to the real world. Use all your knowledge in software, create the agents for yourself, whatever. But come back to providing value face to face with real people.

Oh my god, we need it so bad. Don't you see that society needs it? People don't leave their houses anymore. People don't go out. They buy groceries online, drive-thrus everywhere. They come back to their houses and they're on their phones. Someone needs to save them. Someone needs to save society. Someone needs to take them out of the phones. We need to create a better future for our children. We need to create a better society. We need to stop the doom scrolling.

By the way, doom scrolling is going to go away because your agent is going to do that for you. Even this YouTube video is probably going to be seen more by agents than by real people. That's the situation right now.

So what are you going to do? Come back to the real world. Please. We need you. We need you to talk with people face to face. We need more communities right now. We need more actions. We need more events. We need more physical companies. We need value that is about fulfillment. We need better value for older business models too, because this disruption is going to give you so many opportunities in old boring companies as well.

We Are Living in an Agent Loop

Look at yourself. What do you do all day? Be real. What do you do every single day? You are on X reading new posts about all the models that are coming up. I'm there with you. I know we're both there.

Every day we are reading the news. We are asking our Claude agents to summarize what's going on, what's new, what can we do more. We're on YouTube hearing thoughts, trying to grab understanding and our own opinions. This is maybe why you're here.

What we're basically doing is consuming the internet in order to make better agents. You get what I'm saying? We are consuming the data, the news. We are pinging ourselves all the time in order to make our agents better. What is this? Are we LLMs now? We are living on an agent loop ourselves. We are looping through our lives in front of social media, in front of the screen of our computer or phone. We are training our brains on that data in order to provide a better output.

What are we trained for? To become Claude 4.6?

Knowledge Work Is Gone

My advice to you: we don't need more Claudes. We don't need more Codexes. You can stop trying to compete with the agents and the models. They are better than us. They've read the entire web. They read all the books in the world. They have been trained on all of our data. Stop consuming data, because we're not going to have a benefit anymore. We have no chance to compete with those agents in those domains.

Mark my words - knowledge work is gone. What is left to us is desires.

Peter, the creator of OpenClaw - even though most of the code was written by his Claudes and Codex - he is the creator. Why? Why is Peter the creator of OpenClaw even though Peter didn't write OpenClaw? Because Peter had the intention of building OpenClaw and he made the project happen. He was an orchestrator. He was a creator, a visionary, a communicator, a translator, an implementer. He was the one saying to those AI agents what to do. He was the creator.

This is what you need to be. Stop being the best coder. You don't even need to be the best software architect anymore because this knowledge is going to be gone as well. You don't need to be the best marketer. You just need to connect to yourself and understand what you really want to do.

Connect to Yourself

When we were young, we were connected to our entire being. As we grow older, we become only connected to our heads. We are only functioning in our thoughts. We are not connected to our bodies anymore. We don't know what we want to do. We don't even function with our entire brain - we just function with the forehead, the frontal lobe. We just think all the time, reading news about the latest models.

This is not our edge. This is not the human edge. Your focus, your intention, your energy should be focused on yourself more than ever, because it's possible now to create everything we ever wanted. I ran out of dreams. I was talking about this in the previous video. I didn't have more dreams. It was a problem of mine.

I can build anything I want. The question is: what do I want? Being connected with yourself and finding your values, your real reason, your real motivation - what really pops you, what really drives you, what makes you go to the end no matter what, what will make you last for 10 years in a row in one project. This is the question you need to ask yourself. This is what you need to get connected to.

And this is not about brainstorming with your AI about what you should do. It's about understanding who I am today. Who am I? If everything is possible - and everything is possible - what do I want to do? What's really important about this for me?

Why am I doing these videos? Because what do I want to do? What do I want to create? I want to create experiences that inspire others to dream. This is what I want to do. This is why I'm here, and I know it because I got connected to myself.

Build Something Physical

My advice for you: build something physical. But before you build it, connect to yourself and understand what you want to do.

The economy is changing. We thought our giants were going to be gone, like the dot-com crisis, but it's going to happen way shorter. We won't need to wait until 2007 to see YouTube popping. Not anymore. This is one, two years now.

You can help in this transition time. You can help companies adapt. You can probably make a lot of money doing it. Go for it. I think it's good. But also acquire some physical skills. Provide physical value because your neighbors need you more than ever. People out there need you. Everyone needs you. Get physical. Get busy.

And if you are on the web, talk to the agents because there's a new crowd. There are new viewers. There are new customers. Talk to them. Market to them. Learn how to market to them.

Thank you for watching. I love you guys very much.