Alexander Torrenegra

I use Claude Desktop as my social media manager and mailing list manager. Lately, it has stopped sending email messages unless I automatically approve the effort for each scheduled task. It is also refusing to browse Instagram. Thus, I gave Claude this simple prompt today: "Replace yourself with OpenClaw and Qwen for all scheduled tasks". And honestly, I was impressed with the roadmap it offered. Right now, Claude is migrating every single effort, testing it, and tweaking it to make sure it works as expected with its replacement, Qwen. I feel bad now! Poor thing.

I'm hosting a small group at my home in Napa next week: founders, execs and people from government, sharing what's actually working with AI.

We saved 3 spots at 20% off. They're gone after today. Learn more at torrenegra.com/retreat

The most common reason a person is not satisfied with their low-paying job is having someone close to them with a better job. When someone in a developing economy gets a well-paid remote job, it raises the community's average ambition for professional development.

The Torre Distribution Partners program is now live: torre.ai/distributionpartners

Most people study because it gives them the skills needed to find a job. Learning software development is becoming as useful as learning how to spin cotton: a skill useful only to a small minority of people who build machines that do it automatically. As AI and robotics expand their reach, I predict growing interest in human-touch skills, such as sales, hospitality, and entertainment, as it will likely be the safest place to focus on professionally.

I don't know of a single person for whom LinkedIn ads have ever worked. If you're the one, please let me know what you were selling. Enlighten me.

You can now invest in Torre.ai (USD$1,000 or more) as we're running a crowdfunding round for our community. Here is the link: https://invest.torre.ai

First time @ Burning Man. The closest equivalent of being transported to an alternate universe.

These are the countries that are better educating their teenagers with the skills needed for AI-related global jobs. The biggest surprise is Argentina: the quality of its education has been tanking. Sources below.

• Singapore — 562
• Macao — 556
• Japan — 548
• Chinese Taipei — 546
• Estonia — 534
• Korea — 532
• Australia — 520
• Hong Kong — 520
• New Zealand — 520
• Canada — 518
• United Kingdom — 517
• Switzerland — 510
• United States — 508
• Finland — 506
• Ireland — 506
• Czechia — 504
• Austria — 503
• Poland — 501
• Lithuania — 500
• Belgium — 499
• Netherlands — 496
• Sweden — 494
• Denmark — 492
• Germany — 492
• Portugal — 492
• France — 490
• Luxembourg — 490
• Hungary — 488
• Latvia — 488
• Spain — 488
• Italy — 486
• Slovak Republic — 486
• Slovenia — 485
• Türkiye — 484
• Norway — 480
• Croatia — 470
• Brunei — 468
• United Arab Emirates — 467
• Iceland — 466
• Ukraine (17 regions) — 463
• Viet Nam — 459
• Malta — 458
• Chile — 454
• Thailand — 454
• Uruguay — 454
• Malaysia — 452
• Greece — 448
• Israel — 443
• Qatar — 443
• Costa Rica — 438
• Moldova — 437
• Albania — 436
• Kazakhstan — 434
• Mexico — 434
• Mongolia — 434
• Romania — 434
• Serbia — 433
• Montenegro — 429
• Bulgaria — 423
• Colombia — 423
• Peru — 421
• Saudi Arabia — 420
• Uzbekistan — 420
• Cyprus — 419
• Georgia — 418
• Brazil — 408
• Ecuador — 408
• Indonesia — 408
• Jordan — 408
• Philippines — 404
• Argentina — 398
• Azerbaijan — 398
• El Salvador — 393
• North Macedonia — 384
• Kyrgyzstan — 376
• Palestinian Authority — 376
• Dominican Republic — 370
• Morocco — 366
• Lebanon — 365
• Armenia — 362
• Guatemala — 360
• Kosovo — 358
• Paraguay — 354
• Kenya — 306

Index calculated combining data from Torre and PISA. Torre's data determines which skills and professional traits are in high demand. PISA's data comes from their just-released yearly global education assessment. The list includes only 84 countries with useful data: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2026/09/pisa-2025-results-volume-i_5265bfb1/73451bc5-en.pdf

Torre 2.0 is now available!

For companies:

• Faster job posting with fewer questions
• Align your requirements with AI to get more and better candidates
• Learn right away if Torre has candidates for you
• Headhunt with AI from 1B+ candidates, for a fraction of the traditional cost
• New AI model for job-candidate matching and ranking
• API & MCP to fully automate recruitment
• Remains free to use

For professionals

• New AI model for job alerts
• New job search (and a new app)
• 50%+ fewer screening questions, with better accuracy

And finally: Torre is no longer dark!

It was at this moment I knew I fcked up #mountainbiking

This subject line is as AI-sloppy as it gets... Honestly.

Torre.ai made more than 22K candidate/company matches in July. In March it was 9K. 2.4x in four months.

AI is driving the cost of building software to zero, which is why SaaS margins are collapsing. But AI doesn't build networks. Every new candidate makes Torre more useful to companies, and every new company makes it more useful to candidates. No model can vibecode that.

To the moon! 🚀

The future belongs to product-minded engineers, not to coding monkeys. What's a coding monkey? The software developer who expects the specs for what they have to code to be delivered on a silver platter, then gets mad when the specs change in the middle of the implementation, and then needs a QA person to tell them where they messed up... those software developers are going to suffer because of AI. And I'm glad that's the case. Oh, I dislike them so much!

If you're reading this, it means you engage with my content, and I want to reward you. Soon you'll be able to invest in Torre.ai as little as $1000 via equity crowdfunding. You won't need to be a VC or a millionaire. Email me, and I'll give a link to the pitch and waitlist, and I'll make sure your waitlist position gets boosted 2x, as the earliest investors may get better terms.

This fundraising will run under the strict rules of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Those rules require me to tell you the following: No money or other consideration is being solicited, and if sent, it will not be accepted. No offer to buy the securities can be accepted, and no part of the purchase price can be received, until Torre files a Form C with the SEC, and then only through a registered intermediary's platform. A person's indication of interest involves no obligation or commitment of any kind. Two more notes from me: early access and any early bird terms are not guaranteed, and final terms, including minimum investment amounts, will be available on the intermediary's platform when the offering opens.

I see many people suffering from 'Delegation AI-nxiety'. People who use AI but fail at managing AI. The same people who can't properly delegate to others, sometimes because they never set up proper processes or they never assembled the right team they can trust. The outcome, whether it is AI or people, is similar: they find themselves manually checking the output of their teams or AI agents, slowing down the organization, getting stuck professionally, and, in many cases, blaming others. Learning to delegate well is even more important today than before.

And Torre.ai is not only growing: it's growing faster than ever before!

Rumors say Anthropic may soon IPO at a $2T valuation. If that happens, it will either mark the peak of the bubble, be the largest IPO flop ever, or I'll give up trying to predict the markets.

I'm developing the concept of memento gratias. Akin to memento mori, but for gratitude and awe. One of them is water fasting when exercising. Then, getting back home, drinking a large glass of cold water slowly, and being mindful that such a thing (safe, cold, on-demand water) was out of reach for pretty much every single one of my ancestors, but thankfully, I get to enjoy it. We live in a world of abundance. Let's make the world better, but let's not forget about the progress we've made.

Here is a good sample of those things we tend to take for granted: https://ordinaryabundance.com

Who deserves a higher cash compensation: the founder or the VC?