This week in In Development Magazine, we explore one of the big questions in development: is there anything that can replace the factory as an engine of growth?
Rafael Proenca has a very good new piece on how countries should think about growth post-AGI.
Foreign ideas substantially influence US innovation. This would seem to suggest to me that innovation matters beyond frontier economies; indeed, that frontier economies require other innovation as well.
Jobs at Anthropic are increasingly about managing your Claudes.
It’s a nice agent swarm; I just didn’t expect it to be Chinese.
Rachmaninoff was an angel investor for Igor Sikorsky?
Daphne Hansell and Matt Beard made an effective altruism pop song. Sample lyrics: “love you at the margin / call me EA adjacent”.
This is not a surprise to anyone who knows Kurtis Lockhart.

