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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and then realize that LLMs can’t actually reliably replace any of the workers they fired.

Depends on the job. Reliability is not really important to these companies. They can be imperfect and cost them money, but nowhere near as much as a human will cost them, and they'll probably do the job better than the majority of them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Short term? Sure.

Long term? Not a chance that equation works out favorably.

But then again, c-suites these days only seem to give a shit about short-term implications.