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The collapse of white-collar work as the most hopeful catastrophe of our time (danielpinchbeck.substack.com)
6 points by 2bird3 116 days ago
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1970-01-01 116 days ago
>People throughout the AI industry are calling the release of GPT-5.3 Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 (as well as Claude Code and Cowork) as harbingers of a massive shift

"This is the best and most secure version of Windows yet!" -Microsoft, on every release.

I'm tired of the hype. AI is what it is:

"60% of the Time, It Works Every Time"

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recursivecaveat 116 days ago
A massive shift that will put half of workers out of the job, but apparently undeserving of a major version number heh
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FerretFred 116 days ago
Well, all that leisure time, and no spare money to buy anything with! Should be interesting.
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mac-attack 116 days ago
Great read. Put into words what I've been feeling for a while now.
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Ancalagon 116 days ago
Still not understanding the optimism. The Epstein files also reveal a large amount of the power held by the AI capitalists are morally bankrupt. Why on Earth would we expect this to pan out in any way that benefits normal people?
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