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oneusefulthing.org
The Overhang

The capability overhang, the gap between what these models can do and what almost anyone is doing with them, is an opportunity because most people don't bring their own advantages to AI, and those who do get much more out of it. That is why I think we will need to focus on the individual traits we have that remain useful even as AI abilities improve. You are not trying to compete with AI in producing outputs, that is a losing game.

— Ethan Mollick
1mo ago
noahpinion.blog
AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs

But of companies that did report a change, more reported an increase than a decrease! And here's the breakdown by sector... Among firms using AI, 44% say it supplemented or enhanced work an employee already does. Ten percent say it performed a task an employee used to do. Eleven percent say it introduced a task no one had been doing.

1mo ago
platformer.news
How much of my boss's job can AI do?

Though it wasn't all the way there, Claudeasey Newton felt like a validation of the anxiety I started feeling earlier this year: any part of my job that a model can't do today, it may very well be able to do soon. Which left me thinking about why I do this job in the first place.

3mo ago
platformer.news
The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet

The implication is clear, and worrisome: employers are increasingly turning to AI systems to do the entry-level work that their junior workers once did. For the moment, that seems to be creating jobs for more senior workers. But what will happen should AI systems be able to do those tasks, too?

3mo ago
noahpinion.blog
Will AI make companies outsource more, or less?

It raises the possibility that self-employment is the future of employment. It's easy enough to imagine a future in which relying on a group of other humans for your economic sustenance won't be as important — instead, we'll all be like little private ship captains, ordering around our crews of AI agents.

4mo ago
platformer.news
This founder isn’t hiring junior engineers anymore

The fear of job loss is "super justified," she told me; in her view, AI has made hiring junior employees "extremely expensive and completely unsustainable for a startup," because every hire now competes with the leverage of what she calls a "1,000x engineer."

4mo ago
platformer.news
How to help knowledge workers who lose their jobs to AI

It's a striking inversion of the pandemic, when the people who could work from home were the safest — and the essential workers who couldn't were the most exposed. That inversion is also why (like Edwards) Kinder rejects a standard San Francisco answer for AI job loss, which is to skip straight to universal basic income. If everyone gets a check big enough to replace a displaced software engineer's salary, she asks, why would anyone keep showing up to police the streets, build houses, or staff hospitals?

4mo ago
oneusefulthing.org
Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence

When should you refuse AI's help, even when it is offering? When should you hand over the keys entirely? And what do you do when the AI is no longer just your assistant, but your reader, your critic, and the gatekeeper standing between your work and its audience?

5mo ago

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