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Has the decline of knowledge work begun?

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388 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 25 Mar 25 17:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Bukhmanizer ◴[26 Mar 25 19:14 UTC] No.43485838[source]▶
I’m surprised not many people talk about this, but a big reason corporations are able to do layoffs is just that they’re doing less. At my work we used to have thousands of ideas of small improvements to make things better for our users. Now we have one: AI. It’s not that we’re using AI to make all these small improvements, or even planning on it. We’re just… not doing them. And I don’t think my experience is very unique.
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prisenco ◴[26 Mar 25 21:37 UTC] No.43487649[source]▶
The AI takeover of the startup space makes me feel a bit crazy because there are still thousands of world-changing app ideas that have zero to do with AI but nobody's funding or building them.

We can't possibly have run out of consumer app ideas in a decade or two, right?

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pram ◴[27 Mar 25 00:04 UTC] No.43488981[source]▶
How quickly we forgot the “Web 3” revolution!
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jongjong ◴[27 Mar 25 01:14 UTC] No.43489425[source]▶
Well it was a scam. The ultimate scam. Literally, they only supported scams and suppressed projects with real potential. I say that as someone who worked in the space and saw it turn into a scam... Started back in 2017.
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__MatrixMan__ ◴[27 Mar 25 06:23 UTC] No.43490864{3}[source]▶
Ultimate, you say? I think the future for scams is looking bright. Scams will one day look back at web 3 and reminisce about their quaint beginnings.
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1. jongjong ◴[28 Mar 25 22:02 UTC] No.43510287{4}[source]▶
Ah yes I exaggerated there. The global debt-fueled fiat monetary ponzi is the ultimate scam, crypto just plays a supporting role in giving people false hope that you can fix corruption with corruption.