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When I was a kid I used to get pulled out of class to fix things.
Half the time it was a TV and VCR not working. A TV and VCR setup has maybe five variables. Is the TV on? Is the VCR on? There are LED indicators for both, so that should take you about two seconds. The RCA cables are literally color coded: yellow goes in yellow, red goes in red, white goes in white. You don't need to know that red is the right audio channel or that yellow is video. You just need to know that colors match. And if you plugged the cables into the port labeled Input 1, you probably want the TV set to Input 1 by clicking the button that says Input until it shows Input 1.
This is probably the most basic technological setup that exists.
A class of 25 kids and one teacher couldn't figure it out. They needed Tim. So they'd go get Tim.
Then they'd go get Tim when the printers didn't work. Then they'd go get Tim when the school network went down. Then they'd go get Tim when they couldn't figure out the PA system. They'd call Tim when the assembly had the 64 channel console and nobody could figure out why the mics kept feeding back.
They needed Tim.
These problems got more and more complex until I started getting hired to do everything from telling people how to projection map on the Statue of Liberty, to doing green screen composites for the first episode of 60 Minutes during COVID, to running digital marketing campaigns on behalf of the record label that had signed my own record. Because my independent efforts were better than what their team was capable of.
Somewhere in the middle of all this I had someone watching my apartment while I was gone. They called me. "How do I turn the lights on?" There are three light switches by the door. Flip them until you see light.
These are the same people.
The same ones who couldn't figure out that the yellow cord goes in the yellow port are the ones who will never figure out how to get hundreds of AI agents to do their work for them. The task isn't hard. It doesn't require special knowledge or skill. It requires the willingness to just use your brain for five seconds. And if you couldn't muster that for a color coded cable, you're definitely not mustering it for a fleet of autonomous agents.
You found it easier to pick up the phone and call someone than to try. You couldn't be bothered to pull out a phone and Google how something works. You can't be bothered to read labels. You can't be bothered to try a few things. You have no concept of the scientific method or troubleshooting. Zero.
These are the people AI is going to replace.
If you know how to type a simple question into Google, you know how to run an entire company with thousands of AIs. The bar is incredibly low. But there is still a bar.
The sad part is the majority of people currently below that bar are the ones spending all their time being afraid AI will take their job, trashing it, refusing to touch it. Rather than just opening it up and asking, "How do I use you?"
That's it. That's the whole trick. Ask it how to use it.
So should you be afraid for your job? Can you figure out how to put the square peg in the square hole?
If so, no. You're going to be just fine. The whole universe is your fucking oyster.
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