A GPT-3-era tweet aged perfectly: 'ask what you'd do with unlimited dumb people'
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-10-29
VicVijayakumar resurfaced an old Zack Korman tweet from the GPT-3 era, calling it far ahead of its time: "The mistake people are making is asking 'how can I use this to automate a smart person's job', when they should be asking 'what would I do if I had unlimited dumb people.'" The framing reads as prophetic in the agent era, where winning products orchestrate massive cheap parallel tasks rather than replacing experts outright.
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