A lot of the statements that got people in trouble seem harmless now. - Paul Graham

Sufficiently good AI translation will decrease the need for people to speak English as a second language. But interestingly the decrease will vary depending on the type of work people do. In person conversations will need lingua francas for longer.

Once you cross the threshold of profitability, however low, your runway becomes infinite.

At any given time, there are only about ten or twenty places where hackers most want to work, and if you aren't one of them, you won't just have fewer great hackers, you'll have zero.