I recommend the trope of 20yo AI enthusiasts who think AI is the future of work and will replace human labor, to spend a couple of years in a traditional Fortune 500 company. Feel in person what it’s like to receive an invitation to a meeting about an email about a ticket about a spreadsheet about a SELECT * query. Watch 20 people debate for a month a 10 digit number that is off by one decimal. See how access to any minor piece of data requires a workflow of permissions from five people. Observe how any deployment requires planning at least two quarters in advance. Pay attention to how nobody, even at the highest levels, cares one bit about productivity, let alone innovation, because the only thing they care about is their paycheck. Then tell me AI is going to replace all human labor.

Four things at once and a full green week is a strong result, but also a hard one to unpack. Did you ever take one of them out for a week to see which change the green actually needed?