The intention of the ultra-wealthy with LLMs is to turn workers as much as possible into identical, replaceable cogs.
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The intention of the ultra-wealthy with LLMs is to turn workers as much as possible into identical, replaceable cogs. Crush the masses into a uniform slop.
It doesn’t even matter whether LLMs are as good as a skilled craftsperson: if they’re “good enough,” can produce SOMETHING, then the negotiating power of individual workers is destroyed.
You fear getting left behind if you don’t adopt LLMs, but in reality we’ll all get left behind if we all adopt LLMs. Now is the time to be Luddites.
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The intention of the ultra-wealthy with LLMs is to turn workers as much as possible into identical, replaceable cogs. Crush the masses into a uniform slop.
It doesn’t even matter whether LLMs are as good as a skilled craftsperson: if they’re “good enough,” can produce SOMETHING, then the negotiating power of individual workers is destroyed.
You fear getting left behind if you don’t adopt LLMs, but in reality we’ll all get left behind if we all adopt LLMs. Now is the time to be Luddites.
Why do you think they’re pushing it so damn hard, with workers FORCED to use LLMs? For our benefit? LOL. If LLMs were for our benefit, then they wouldn’t need to be pushed at all.
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Why do you think they’re pushing it so damn hard, with workers FORCED to use LLMs? For our benefit? LOL. If LLMs were for our benefit, then they wouldn’t need to be pushed at all.
All the shit they force on you that seems bad—LLMs, RTO, open offices, Agile, etc.—is actually bad, productivity theater, and never for your benefit.
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Why do you think they’re pushing it so damn hard, with workers FORCED to use LLMs? For our benefit? LOL. If LLMs were for our benefit, then they wouldn’t need to be pushed at all.
@lapcatsoftware If LLMs somehow benefited employees with no downside I would 100% expect companies to do everything in their power to prevent their use.
The US is a country where cashiers are forced to stand all day instead of getting a chair (even if there's no one in the store); anyone who thinks companies like genAI because it improves the lives of their employees (even for the company's benefit) is severely out of touch with how companies operate.
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The intention of the ultra-wealthy with LLMs is to turn workers as much as possible into identical, replaceable cogs. Crush the masses into a uniform slop.
It doesn’t even matter whether LLMs are as good as a skilled craftsperson: if they’re “good enough,” can produce SOMETHING, then the negotiating power of individual workers is destroyed.
You fear getting left behind if you don’t adopt LLMs, but in reality we’ll all get left behind if we all adopt LLMs. Now is the time to be Luddites.
@lapcatsoftware you have to wonder if this’ll create more solidarity between blue and white collar workers, the latter which have borne the brunt of automation prior to 2025. If the overlords don’t have the same level of compliant administrators, do the administrators defect? Or is it a case of 1000 cuts and the frog in the pot analogy?
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The intention of the ultra-wealthy with LLMs is to turn workers as much as possible into identical, replaceable cogs. Crush the masses into a uniform slop.
It doesn’t even matter whether LLMs are as good as a skilled craftsperson: if they’re “good enough,” can produce SOMETHING, then the negotiating power of individual workers is destroyed.
You fear getting left behind if you don’t adopt LLMs, but in reality we’ll all get left behind if we all adopt LLMs. Now is the time to be Luddites.
Whatever they might wish, that's neither the way to use an LLM or how to use people.
Machines go by the rules. People manage the exceptions. It's very simple. All this about how LLMs are the HOV Lane to the Hell of Good Enough - that's not how this works.
Want a simple TL;DR of how an LLM operates? Ever bounced a ball off the wall, tennis practice ? The LLM will give you the most-appropriate answer, NOT THE CORRECT ANSWER.
That's not how they work.
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The intention of the ultra-wealthy with LLMs is to turn workers as much as possible into identical, replaceable cogs. Crush the masses into a uniform slop.
It doesn’t even matter whether LLMs are as good as a skilled craftsperson: if they’re “good enough,” can produce SOMETHING, then the negotiating power of individual workers is destroyed.
You fear getting left behind if you don’t adopt LLMs, but in reality we’ll all get left behind if we all adopt LLMs. Now is the time to be Luddites.
@lapcatsoftware “Reverse Centaurs” as @pluralistic says; see https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington
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