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AI power users can't stop grinding - by Celia Ford

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AI was meant to give us more time off, but instead many are finding it compels them to take on more and more work

Dario Amodei’s optimistic vision for a superintelligent future, written when Anthropic’s frontier model was still Claude 3.5 Sonnet, takes its title from a 1967 poem by Richard Brautigan: I like to think / (it has to be!) / of a cybernetic ecology / where we are free of our labors / and joined back to nature, / returned to our mammal / brothers and sisters, / and all watched over / by machines of loving grace. The machines will work tirelessly so we don’t have to, they said. Then came Codex, Claude Code, and the year of AI agents. There’s probably a zillennial coastal elite in your life…

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