
AI Doing Your Job Is a Dead End. Here's What Comes After.
The blue-collar AI ceiling Right now, the entire AI industry is focused on one thing: making AI do human work. Write my code. Draft my email. Analyze my data. Summarize my meeting. This is blue-collar AI. It's useful, it's expensive (those LLM tokens add up), and it's hitting a ceiling. Here's why. The more you automate human work, the less humans actually do the work themselves. And when you stop doing the work, you stop understanding what the problems are. You can't ask AI to solve a problem you don't know exists. You can't direct AI toward a breakthrough you can't imagine. We're building increasingly powerful tools for a user who is increasingly losing the ability to know what to ask for. The IQ parallel Human IQ exists within a fixed range. No matter how much we optimize education, nutrition, or environment, we don't produce people with IQ 500. There's a biological ceiling. AI is hitting a similar wall, just from a different direction. We keep scaling parameters — 7B, 70B, 405B, tr
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