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This is stolen content from corporate bro’s product review of his baby from August 2025

https://youtube.com/shorts/fKV1lu1blbo?si=XYLbqFSsuqMZt9dF

Interesting to read this article and then this

https://open.substack.com/pub/pragmaticengineer/p/when-ai-wr...

in the same day.

Should be titled, "AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Privacy In America"

Flock is driving the following future:

"It’s a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of privacy even in public spaces to its inverse. Not only do we not have a right to privacy in public; we don’t even have a right to see ourselves as the government and police might see us — a set of still moments in place and time from which they, not us, can decide what our story is."

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rur...

"Amazon reached 1.6 million employees in 2020, and now they're down to 1.5 million.[2]"

I agree in the bottoms-up automation / displacement theory, but you're cherry picking data here. They had a huge hiring surge from 1.2M to 1.6M during the Covid transition where online ordering and online usage went bananas, and workers who were displaced in other domains likely gravitated towards warehouse jobs from other lower wage/skill domains.

The reduction to 1.5M is likely more a regression to the mean and could also be a natural data reduction well within the bounds of the upper and lower control limits in the data [1]. Just saying we need to be careful when doing root cause analysis on these numbers. There are many reasons for the reduction, it's not a direct result of improvements in robotic automation.

[1] https://commoncog.com/becoming-data-driven-first-principles/