**James Gleick** @gleick@mas.to · Jul 02, 2026, 15:55

**James Gleick** @gleick@mas.to · Jul 02, 2026, 15:55

1. Swallow the AI hype.
2. Fire your skilled humans.
3. Discover that the AI does inferior work.
4. Hire back the humans TO TRAIN THE AI.

Coming soon:

5. Fire the humans again.
6. Discover that the AI does inferior work.

**Mauve 👁💜** @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe · 2026-07-03T01:31:56Z

Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@gleick Part of this is to try to lower wages accross the boars by colluding mass layoffs between large corps. The AI is more an excuse tbh.