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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Laaaaame
First off, they're not his agents unless he's got his own LLM running on his own server; and you can't just show up at a new job with a server all like, yeah, plug this into your network and grant me permissions, it'll be fine.
Secondly, you can automate workflows without LLMs. Crontab, for instance. Trillions of people have been automating workflows for tens of thousands of years. Agentic automation is more expensive and less reliable than cron.
If someone is showing up at my office and telling me they're going to use Claude to rename a .PDF I'm going to laugh and then ask them to leave.
You want the future? Don't be the guy selling shovels during a gold rush. Be the shovel-maker, and then hoard your shovels to inflate demand. Fill your house with shovels. Use shovels instead of plates and cutlery and clothing. Make sure everyone knows that you're The Shovel King (or Queen) and don't tell anyone you're unemployed, no matter how many job interviews you fuck up by talking about shovels.
You forgot the part where the LLM also needs to be trained exclusively on the creations of that very person themselves. Everything else is stolen credits.
Why would you go through the hassle of setting Cron when you can ask an LLM running on a server in another continent every minute: "now it's [time]. If it's [time_required], then do this"
Calm down DeBeers
Seriously though, I don't touch llms and just hoard a folder full of various bat and ps files for different things I've needed to do repeatedly. And a few txt files of snippets and one liners for less routine items.
I do user facing support more than server wrangling. It works better for my workflow since I don't know what machine I'll be on any given minute