Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025)

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Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness.
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Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex.
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AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot: Errors that are tuned to be statistically indistinguishable from correct code.
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AI's pogo-stick grift: The hard part is operating in an unpredictable, adversarial, unstructured world.
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Delta's AI-based price-gouging: Running an airline like a hedge-fund.
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When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops: Botshit, botshit everywhere.
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How much (little) are the AI companies making?: Ed Zitron does the math.
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Your Meta AI prompts are in a live, public feed: Zuck thinks we've all forgotten about Beacon.
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AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers: A reverse-centaur in the loop.
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