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> the 996+ crowd

What does this mean?

Mid-20's tech guys vigorously prompting LLM agents in the race to burn as many tokens as possible during 72-hour work week (9 am-9 pm, 6 days per week) in order to, paradoxically, not need to work anymore once AGI is achieved.

Thanks, now that you mention it I was aware of this.

But it wasn’t immediately obvious to me what was being discussed in this context, to me it looked like it was maybe a reference for to a certain set of postcodes or telephone number prefixes in reference to a certain set of people or some such.

I think the plus threw me.

The plus I haven't encountered before, but "996" is a Google away. In short, working 9 AM to 9 PM, six days per week.

If I wanted a machine response I’m quite capable of using my preferred tools.

I come here for the conversation.

Your comment would have been better without the needles reminder that search providers exist.

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