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More context for anyone unfamiliar, Thurmond headed the Dixiecrat movement that splintered from the Democratic party after Truman moved to end racial segregation. He would later join the Republican party in opposition of the Civil Rights Act.

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    It will sound cliche but don't forget your value is not defined by a job, number one. It's a shitshow out there, I only recently found a new position after a year out of work, when LLM addicted execs downsized my last team. but there are still orgs that prioritize accuracy and quality over slop and speed, those are the ones to seek out these days.

    I was definitely investigating an ADHD diagnosis while seeking work, the behavior patterns are much more noticeable isolated and missing the problem solving dopamine hits. I never got around to seeing a professional about it though. Figures.

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    Founding Fathers- "do we add some clarity? Naahh that would never happen"

    One semiquincentennial later "Well now see here there ain't nothin on these books sayin we can't elect a rapist felon to the highest office"

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    Say I’m a company with 1000 employees. A company like anthropic is offering to replace each employee with some sort of agent. Suppose the agents cost roughly $80k, where an employee costs $100k. I take that deal because it saves real money and replace, say, 500 employees with agents.

    Now let’s assume just for the sake of argument that these AI agents do exactly as promised and truly do replace those workers and all of their responsibilities. Things seem great, I decreased my costs a lot and my business is buzzing along.

    Now anthropic comes to me and says they’re going to increase their prices to $100k/agent. What now?

    Since you’re trading individual employees for a company that’s providing the service at a cost, it’s effectively like these agents are unionized, in a way. They ask for a raise and you don’t comply? Okay fine. No work for you. Nothing you can say or do will get these agents back

    Not only that, anthropic can leverage the absolutely insane amount of data they have to squeeze you for everything you’re worth. They probably have actuaries on staff who can figure out the maximum possible amount they can charge you before you leave.

    Going to a competitor is easier said than done. There’s a lot of underlying infrastructure with AI that needs to be changed and adjusted to make it work. Each model has its own strengths and weaknesses. So maybe, you go to a competitor and it’s back to 80k/year, but now, code has a 10% higher error rate and you start losing money

    idk. it just seems like this desire to get rid of labor entirely can only backfire. This is one way, but there are so many others too.

    Duplicated from source: https://www.reddit.com/r/trueantiAI/comments/1wj748w/wouldnt_using_replacing_employees_with_ai/

     

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