>That’s not evidence the task was easy. That’s evidence it was so hard...

Are humans starting to adopt LLM patterns or was this was ironically written with an LLM?

That said, I'm surprised you didn't bring up Marx in your essay in the later sections. I vaguely remember he had some thoughts about derivation of value from labor vs "ideas/capital". Whether or not you agree, this debate is reminiscent of that just moved up one level to white-collar workers.