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   Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 12:26:36 JST Casey Newton

   Almost a decade ago, James Manyika bet that tasks would be easy to automate — but jobs wouldn't. Now at Google, he says he's willing to bet against Microsoft, Anthropic, and any other company whose execs say a bloodbath is coming for white-collar work https://www.platformer.news/james-manyika-google-ai-jobs-io-2026/

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     Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 12:26:36 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

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     > "When I talk with folks whose jobs are beginning to change due to AI, it seems like an increasingly large part of their job is reviewing AI output. Whereas once they spent a lot of time manually writing code, now they spend more time reviewing it. The thing about reviewing work is it doesn't always scratch that same creative itch. Could job change wind up being a different kind of job loss, because some jobs that once felt very creative now just feel like tedious drudgery?"

     this is a big sticking point for me.

     even if all the ethical, ecological, social and economic issues could be satisfactorily resolved, I don't want to spend the rest of my career reviewing genAI output.

     that sounds depressing as hell.