@AriX: Loved this piece.
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Dan Shipper reports that despite automating everything possible with AI agents, his company has grown from 4 to 30 human employees since GPT-3, arguing that AI makes expert competence cheap and drives up demand for human work.
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Loved this piece.
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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