Why the AI job loss narrative is overhyped: AI models still need to be prompted and verified, often iteratively, to drive business value. As @balajis says, AI is middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. Humans do the stuff at the ends (supervision); AI does the stuff in the middle.

AI PROMPTING → AI VERIFYING AI prompting scales, because prompting is just typing. But AI verifying doesn’t scale, because verifying AI output involves much more than just typing. Sometimes you can verify by eye, which is why AI is great for frontend, images, and... See more

The view that imagines AI wiping out jobs or causing some overnight shock to the system doesn’t contemplate that companies are a made up of a series of bottlenecks. When AI accelerates work in one area, you run into a bottleneck somewhere else. As any individual workflow gets more efficient, the ultimate productivity ga... See more