“How AI replaced me”
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/how-ai-replaced-me/?ref=articles-newsletter
> An hour after I was laid off, my former CEO held a seven-minute all-hands meeting to read a Claude-generated script about how leadership had “made some hard decisions but are ultimately replacing these roles with AI.”
That's a big yikes right out of the gate. (Via Audrey Watters)
Baldur Bjarnason
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