Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid at the Smithsonian

An opinion piece argues that AI and automation—including LLMs—will increasingly replace rule-based, ‘mechanical’ work such as call centers and some professional roles, while creative and edge-case problem solving will remain human-driven; it criticizes corporate cost-cutting, offshoring, and the loss of entry-level jobs that once trained the workforce, concluding that once jobs are automated away, they rarely return.