Spend two years at a Fortune 500 before claiming AI will replace all human labor
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-10
Pushing back on the "AI will replace all human labor" narrative, the author urges young AI enthusiasts to spend a couple of years inside a Fortune 500 company first.
- Endless nested workflows: a meeting about an email about a ticket about a spreadsheet about a SELECT query
- 20 people debating a 10-digit number off by one decimal for a month
- Any data access requires permission workflows from five people; deployments planned two quarters ahead
- Nobody from top to bottom cares about productivity or innovation—only their paycheck
The core argument: the biggest barrier to AI replacing labor isn't technical capability, but the inertia and incentives of human organizations.
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