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Why Are They Selling Us on Total AI Automation?

July 14, 2026
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If you spend hundreds of billions of dollars buying graphics cards and building gigantic data centers that consume the energy of an entire city, you have to promise Wall Street an enormous return on investment. And the only way to justify that return is to claim that you’re going to eliminate the cost of intellectual labor entirely.

If you spend hundreds of billions of dollars buying graphics cards and building gigantic data centers that consume the energy of an entire city, you have to promise Wall Street an enormous return on investment. And the only way to justify that return is to claim that you’re going to eliminate the cost of intellectual labor entirely. Exactly. They need to sell the story of total automation to sustain the financial bubble. If artificial intelligence only serves to make a programmer twenty percent more efficient, the math on that multibillion-dollar investment doesn’t add up at all.

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