"First they came for the SWEs": an AI takeover marching through all knowledge work
felpix_ · x · 2026-10-13
A viral-style post riffing on the "First they came..." template charts AI's creeping replacement of knowledge work: first software engineers, then mathematicians, scientists, writers, and on to lawyers, doctors, and every other knowledge profession — until no knowledge work is left.
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