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> What the article is really about is the idea that all of the money that is now paid in wages will somehow be paid to AI companies as AI replaces humans.

Is anyone actually claiming this?

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Not directly, but indirectly. It's what's leading to the FOMO w.r.t. investors. See the image in the parent blog post, where VCs are directly comparing the amount of money spent on AI at the moment (tiny) against the amount of money spent on headcount in various industries, with the implication being that "AI could be making all the money that was being spent on headcount, what an opportunity!"

The author claims so, but there don't seem to be any sources.

Given how the AI hype has been going though I wouldn't be at all surprised. And the article's following conclusions are also unsurprising (other than the bit where it claims AI can actually replace your software engineers)

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