Musician pushes back on "use AI or be left behind": prompt middlemen are the most replaceable jobs
IanArawjo · x · 2026-10-25
Musician Essenger pushed back on the "you'll be left behind if you don't use AI" narrative. Relying on prompting only keeps you "ahead" briefly, he argues, before you render yourself incapable of anything but being a middleman — which he calls the most replaceable loophole job on earth. The take is circulating widely in AI circles.
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