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Not referring to Shopify specifically, it's surprising to see startups who are able to increase their operational capacity with their existing workforce by usin
by j45 3y ago
Not referring to Shopify specifically, it's surprising to see startups who are able to increase their operational capacity with their existing workforce by using AI... and instead of instantly having freely trained and ready to go employees to grow the business, instead work to shrink their workforce, instead of putting them to work on the new problems their eventual disruptors will solve.
Automation has always been a scary threat for losing jobs for the last 30-40 years. While LLM might be different, there's almost certainly even more in the next 5-10 years we haven't imagined yet.
- rightbyte 3y agoIt's probably enshitification. Short term higher profits. Fire support staff and it tales time for the effects to manifest. Could be either internal support like secretaries, technical writers or external support, like, customer support.