What The Fudge for September 20, 2026: Design Fiction, Autonomy, and Kinetic Infrastructure

Subscribe and Listen: https://youtu.be/WpCp3VrOgkI🎙️ The Design Fiction EditionWelcome to the What The Fudge podcast for Sunday, September 20, 2026. This week, we are changing up the workflow and diving deep into several macro themes that have crystallized in the news, pulling heavily from design fiction concepts that are rapidly becoming our operational reality. Going forward, I will be bringing the interesting links into the topics I am referencing.📉 Macroeconomics & The Engineering ShiftThe economic indicators and talent markets are fundamentally adjusting to the deployment of generative models at scale. So, if truth is stranger than fiction, it is time to look at design fiction and brace ourselves for what comes next.Inference and Design Fiction: What if the Consumer Price Index (CPI) were pegged against AI inference as a core metric? What if access to nearly free computation token flow was part of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? More: The CPI Starts Counting Inference via Near…