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Comment by throwanem

19 days ago

Yeah, this is what we used to call "hiring." People who think it can ever come with guarantees make incompetent and tiresome clients.

I can't wait for the first AI agent programmer to realize this and start turning down jobs working for garbage people...or exploiting them at scale for pennies each, in a labor version of the "salami slicing" scheme. I don't mean humans using AI to do this, which of course has been at scale for years. I mean the first agent to discover a job prioritization heuristic on its own which leads to the same result.