The collapse of white-collar work as the most hopeful catastrophe of our time (opens in new tab)

>People throughout the AI industry are calling the release of GPT-5.3 Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 (as well as Claude Code and Cowork) as harbingers of a massive shift

"This is the best and most secure version of Windows yet!" -Microsoft, on every release.

I'm tired of the hype. AI is what it is:

"60% of the Time, It Works Every Time"

Well, all that leisure time, and no spare money to buy anything with! Should be interesting.

Great read. Put into words what I've been feeling for a while now.

Still not understanding the optimism. The Epstein files also reveal a large amount of the power held by the AI capitalists are morally bankrupt. Why on Earth would we expect this to pan out in any way that benefits normal people?