'Has AI made anything non-digital cheaper?' A thread on labor productivity
BellaRudd1 · x · 2026-08-25
Bella Rudd answers Ben Reinhardt's question of whether AI has made anything non-digital cheaper with a smartass reply: labor — AI has measurably increased her team's productivity. Reinhardt pushes back: have you passed those gains on to customers? And is your team producing anything non-digital? The exchange highlights the open question of whether AI's cost savings stay inside digital workflows instead of reaching the physical economy.
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