“The pipeline of future experts is thinning from both ends.”

I generally avoid think pieces about AI because a) a lot of them are boring, and b) they rarely match the pragmatic posture of this blog. But this essay on a new No One’s Happy blog was really interesting to read, and feels different in a few ways. First, it examines what happens as AI slop spreads in the context that is less discussed – in a workplace: This is a new form of slop, and it is more expensive than the public kind, because the people producing it are being paid a salary to do so. […] The cost of