The collapse of white-collar work as the most hopeful catastrophe of our time

https://danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p/all-that-is-solid-melts-into-code

by 2bird3 • 5 months ago

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danielpinchbeck.substack.com

mac-attack• 5 months ago

Great read. Put into words what I've been feeling for a while now.

1970-01-01• 5 months 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"

recursivecaveat• 5 months ago

A massive shift that will put half of workers out of the job, but apparently undeserving of a major version number heh

Ancalagon• 5 months 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?

FerretFred• 5 months ago

Well, all that leisure time, and no spare money to buy anything with! Should be interesting.

The collapse of white-collar work as the most hopeful catastrophe of our time

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