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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30, 2026, putting the crowdsourcing service on life support with no new features planned, while existing customers can continue using it.
A blog post exploring the NP-hard problem of partitioning songs for 8-track tapes and humorously suggesting that LLMs could replace the human engineers who once solved this problem manually, while criticizing the use of Mechanical Turk workers for similar tasks.