With agents solving grunt work, you can skip straight to Seeing Like a State
akbirthko · x · 2026-10-27
A wry AI-culture observation: now that agents "solve" the grunt work, you can skip the basics and jump straight to reading James C. Scott's classic Seeing Like a State—implying AI compresses entry-level labor and elevates the value of human judgment and critical reading.
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