"Every job was a placeholder until a machine could do it" — bold AGI labor take
rand_longevity · x · 2026-10-21
randlongevity argues that every job humans have held was effectively a placeholder until a machine could do it — and that this placeholder phase is now ending. A stark framing of AI-driven labor displacement.
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