beffjezos: bullshit jobs are the bottleneck for economic foom as models crack Millennium Problems
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-09
- Andrew Ho notes a paradox: models can now resolve Millennium Problems, yet US annualized GDP growth sits at 1.5%.
- beffjezos responds that "bullshit jobs" are the bottleneck for economic foom — AI capability is arriving faster than organizations and low-value work structures can convert it into real output.
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