The collapse of white-collar work as the most hopeful catastrophe of our time

(danielpinchbeck.substack.com)

5 points | by 2bird3 7 hours ago ago

5 comments

  • 1970-01-01 3 hours ago ago

    >People throughout the AI industry are calling the release of GPT-5.3 Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 (as well as Claude Code and Cowork) as harbingers of a massive shift

    "This is the best and most secure version of Windows yet!" -Microsoft, on every release.

    I'm tired of the hype. AI is what it is:

    "60% of the Time, It Works Every Time"

    • recursivecaveat 2 hours ago ago

      A massive shift that will put half of workers out of the job, but apparently undeserving of a major version number heh

  • FerretFred 2 hours ago ago

    Well, all that leisure time, and no spare money to buy anything with! Should be interesting.

  • Ancalagon 3 hours ago ago

    Still not understanding the optimism. The Epstein files also reveal a large amount of the power held by the AI capitalists are morally bankrupt. Why on Earth would we expect this to pan out in any way that benefits normal people?

  • mac-attack 3 hours ago ago

    Great read. Put into words what I've been feeling for a while now.