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337 points mooreds | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.478s | source
1. PeterStuer ◴[] No.44488151[source]
"Claude 4 Opus can technically rewrite auto-generated transcripts for me. But since it’s not possible for me to have it improve over time and learn my preferences, I still hire a human for this."

Sure, just as a select few people still hire a master carpenter to craft some bespoke exclusive chestnut drawer, but that does not take away 99% of bread and butter carpenters were replaced by IKEA, even though the end result is not even in the same ballpark both from an esthetic as from a quality point of view.

But as IKEA meets a price-point people can afford, with a marginally acceptable product, it becomes self reinforcing. The mass volume market for bespoke carpentry dwindles, being suffocated by a disappearing demand at the low end while IKEA (I use this a a standing for low cost factory furniture) gets ever more economy of scale advantages allowing it to eat further across the stack with a few different tiers of offer.

What remains is the ever more exclusive boutique market top end, where the result is what counts and price is not really an issue. The 1% remaining master-carpenters can live here.