Bezos Predicts AI Could Enable 3-Day Workweeks — His Lab Friends Still Work 66 Hours
max_paperclips · x · 2026-10-09
Jeff Bezos claims AI could enable 3-day workweeks and one-income families. The poster pushes back with a sharp contrast: friends at big AI labs with unlimited token budgets still grind eleven-hour days, six days a week.
A neat snapshot of the gap between AI leisure utopianism and the industry's own work culture.
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