alt Hacker NewsThey aim to undercut labor.
For now, businesses are getting addicted to cheap tokens. As the screws get turned, business will debate whether they should spend budget on humans or tokens. What's further devastating is that humans are also becoming addicted to cheap tokens. Much human output is nowadays a token slopfest. People are becoming dumber too. So the real business question will be spending budget on token monkeys or tokens.
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iwontberude • today at 2:23 AM
If you knew about how much man power it takes to maintain, evaluate and improve agentic workflows, I don’t think you would write such a thing. In this context, AI is a jobs program for permanent employment.
> They aim to undercut labor.
Which doesn't work the same way at all. With taxis, making them unprofitable leads to a long-lasting lack of taxis. When lots of jobs are lost, it actually becomes easier to hire someone with the right experience.