Watching an LLM finish 3 hours of work in 3 minutes, middle managers fear for their jobs
mjdramstead · x · 2026-09-21
The quoted post describes a widespread sentiment: after watching Claude or other LLMs complete in 3 minutes a task that used to take 3 hours, middle managers in tech, finance and other office jobs feel their expertise has been commoditized—and wonder how many months until executives realize they no longer need to pay their salaries.
Physicist Gavin Crooks replied that he feels the opposite: the dawn of the agentic era of science fills him with energy—"so many previously impossible projects are now merely hard"—calling it an incredible time to be alive. The contrast captures the mindset split among professionals facing AI automation.
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