tszzl: the 'infinite mediocre people' mental model of AI is wrong
deanwball · x · 2026-10-29
In a reply forwarded by Dean Ball, AI commentator tszzl argues that the popular mental model of AI as "what if I had infinite mediocre people" is wrong, pushing back on the framing of AI as a mass of cheap average workers.
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