OpenAI's Will Depue: all non-artisanal human economic labor is "totally fucking over"
willdepue · x · 2026-11-11
OpenAI's Will Depue replied to a tweet trying to reassure concerned PhD students with a stark take: all economic labor except "artisanal" work (value derived from being done by a human) is finished — humans will watch "from the sidelines," like Magnus Carlsen vs Stockfish 13. The replier, @niloofarmire, says she daily encounters UGs/PhD students rightfully worried, but argues the pie is growing and there are still many cool problems to be curious about.
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