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Shawn Wang

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“I'm on record as like a 95% doomer, where I'm like, the default path we should assume is that this all goes wrong…” — Shawn Wang, Software Unscripted

Wang and his host had been arguing about whether AI eliminates jobs the way automation was supposed to eliminate radiologists, and had just agreed that radiology did not die. Wang's framing here is asymmetric risk rather than prediction: he says being wrong and unprepared is negative infinity on the risk-reward matrix. It comes from someone who works on AI developer tooling for a living.

Software Unscripted · 2026-05-09 Context → Listen →

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