wish there was more public info on what's happening behind the scenes. frontier labs are spending BILLIONS paying {poets, musicians, accountants, consultants, …} to annotate massive amounts of data:
• essays
• slides
• spreadsheets
it's a brute-force bet. but seems to be
WORKFORCE
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Frontier labs’ billion-dollar brute-force data annotation with diverse annotators
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AI Robotics Challenges in 2030s Impact Employment and Pensions
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Additional challenges will be posed by advanced AI robotics in the 2030s and their impact upon employment and pensions funding.
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Who will finance pensions with AI robots?
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The question remains: if robots equipped with advanced AI take over a large part of work in the 2030s, who will then fund pensions?
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Software-brained approach limits code tools for knowledge work
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A fundamental problem with extending Codex/Cowork/Code to all knowledge work is that they remain very "software-brained" where the end result (the software) is what is important & that code serves as a source of truth. For a lot of other knowledge work, the process is at least
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Companies that talk about layoffs with AI use it the least
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« Les entreprises qui parlent de licenciements avec l'IA sont les sociétés qui font le moins d'IA. »
— Defend Intelligence (Anis Ayari) (@DFintelligence) 20 juin 2026
Est-ce que les employés doivent avoir peur de se faire remplacer ?
J'ai eu la chance de pouvoir échanger pendant 30 minutes avec @romainhuet, Head of Developer Experience chez… pic.twitter.com/xRG7TdVABE“Companies that talk about layoffs with AI are the ones that use AI the least.” Should employees fear being replaced? I had the chance to chat for 30 minutes with
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AI levels performance and commoditizes contract labor
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Some interesting findings suggesting that, by leveling performance, AI also commoditizes contract labor. https://t.co/L53CENsj5X
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 20 juin 2026Some interesting findings suggesting that, by leveling performance, AI also commoditizes contract labor.
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Productivity metric: one chat equals one human hour
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No, it allows you to calculate the productivity statement of “one chat = one human hour of work” If someone instead took 99999999 chats to see the same productivity gains, you would say that person is less productive.
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Stéphane Mallard predicts the end of paid human work
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Economists will all contradict him again. And he will be right again. Robots and AI will work for us. We will see the end of paid human work.
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AI codes all projects for 6-12 months, developer stops writing code
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I have nothing to pump, I just let AI code all my projects for the last 6-12 months and don't write my own code anymore
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AI logos mirror overpromise versus mundane reality
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𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗼𝘀. Maybe they are simply reflecting the output, because every AI company promises to transform humanity, reinvent work, and accelerate intelligence, but the moment someone asks for a clean PowerPoint or a decent