AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked?

According to the description, Nathan Labenz reports off-the-record views from frontier lab leaders at The Curve conference on shortened timelines. Guests discuss token spend versus salaries, coding agents, accidental agent swarms hitting critical infrastructure, and training data.

The record

Questions
How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading? · What happens to work, income and the economy?
People
Nathan Labenz (Speaks) · Thomas Sohmers (Speaks, CTO, Positron) · swyx (Speaks) · Evan Miyazono (Speaks) · Edward Hu (Speaks)
What we read
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Found by
The Radar, run of October 12, 2026, via yt-the-cognitive-revolution-youtube (tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record)
Cite this
The Cognitive Revolution, “AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked?”, October 8, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/cognitive-revolution-2026-10-08-the-curve-notes-tokens-salaries
Our notesThe lab leaders' views are off the record per the description, so nothing here can be attributed to a named lab leader. Guest details are from the description only.