@rileybeans_: I need to go through this in detail, but on a quick scroll through it is impressive. A true look at where things curren…
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A commentary on Dan Shipper's report about how AI automation paradoxically increases the demand for human work, as evidenced by a company growing from 4 to 30 employees despite automating everything possible with AI agents.
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I need to go through this in detail, but on a quick scroll through it is impressive. A true look at where things currently are under the hood @every
The animations, diagrams, and use cases are so good.
Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper): We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents.
And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3.
I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand
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