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Tell that to all the other ceo and management who sees and in a lot of cases already acting on ai as an employee replacement tool.

Even having an optimistic view of this will automate away jobs people don’t want to do… well those people do that job to make a pay check and healthcare. And in the USA healthcare is tied to you being employed

Good luck. Hope you don’t get cancer.

But reality never takes the optimistic view. Everything turns to Enshitification as history shows. Especially with people like Sam running the show. He isn’t just gonna wake up one day and really give a shit about humanity.

It's automating away the ONLY jobs anyone ever wanted to do. You see game dev companies saying stuff like "oh we're only using it for previz". Oh you mean the one fun creative speculative job in the chain where you make art and ideate about characters and fashion and the look? Wow cool, I can still do tedious details and go to meetings? Oh I don't get to problem solve and make drafts and prototypes and test my skill at a craft, I get to code review generated 10,000 line PRS? Exciting.
The uptick in Indeed job listings is not a reliable indicator of job growth. AI has simply made it easier to render JDs and screen candidates at scale. Wouldn't it be expected that software companies would be better at leveraging the tech to create more job listings?
Agree, it’s insane. I applied to a role at a series d startup. The recruiter said they had over 800 applications
"AI will displace human labor at very large scale, which is horrible and will lead to mass poverty and premature death, but we still felt the need to aggressively develop & market it to you because uhhhhh if we didn't, someone else might." One molotov wasn't enough for these guys.

Unlike Altman's cronies, at least Anthropic leadership appears to walk the walk with their fear-based marketing, and isn't turning around and donating millions to deregulation Super PACs.