AI isn't creating a permanent underclass—unemployment is down and opportunities are multiplying across coding, personal agents, and consumer products. Anish Acharya, general partner at a16z, argues that company building is becoming a series of loops where AI climbs to local maxima while humans inject creative ambition. The real opportunity in consumer isn't productivity—it's happiness, connection, and fun. Economic diffusion will catch AI progress naturally; slow takeoff, not fast, is happening because most problems aren't purely intelligence-bound and models still need humans to jump between local maxima.