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foggy bottom jeans @robt.fm · 28/09/2026also there’s something off to me where all the anthropomorphization is being *pushed* upon us. it’s one thing to put googly eyes on your grill but I think it’s sinister that we’re being told this inevitable technology is going to be our coworker (don’t let them near the watercooler 👀) 110
foggy bottom jeans @robt.fm · 28/09/2026no. they are tools. we have to draw a hard line at using the language of labor to talk about these things. ideally we wouldn’t call them ”agents“ either. but an instance/interface of some LLM is no more a coworker to me than Excel is 110
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