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Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by adventured on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:01PM (#50431092)
All the human engineers will be in harnesses in the future.

Within three years most software developer jobs will consist of taking instruction from the AI systems. The humans won't see it that way, but that's what it will actually be. Realistically the thing that will happen is the humans will be put into harnesses (cubicles) and prompted by the AI (I need you to plug that server in; I need you to give me access to such and such; now do this, then do that). Most tech jobs will consist of AI telling the human what the AI needs the human to do next, de facto the human will be in a harness and will be getting told what to do.

Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by dominotw on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:06PM (#50431166)
But who gives it the intial prompt as to what to do?

Someone has to type in "create the next billboard top 1 single" ?

Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by IshKebab on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:25PM (#50431496)
It'll be Sam Altman "make people love me, fan out humans".
Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by adventured on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:27PM (#50431538)
The ownership class, the capital class - whatever people prefer to call it, will still call all the shots as they always have, and always will.

So whether that's a CEO at the top instructing a human manager that then instructs AI systems, which then put into motion plans that include the harnessed humans getting prompted, or however it's decided to best configure the top operational tiers - that's all fairly irrelevant ultimately. All human labor, and all AI labor, will be in harnesses. Realistically all human labor has always been in a harness.

The people in charge will be the people that control the capital. They will instruct the AI to their bidding, they will control the data centers the AI lives in, they will own the robots doing the labor in factories, they will own the factories, they will control the grid, they will control the electricity generation, et al.

It's true now, it'll be true tomorrow. Nothing fundamental will shift at that tier: don't be labor, own.

Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by bobson381 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:44PM (#50431812)
I like to think of capital itself as possessing actancy - the ultra rich are just the closest to the raw thing, and its most powerful servants.
Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by bobson381 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:43PM (#50431792)
If you take Daniel Schmachtenberger's thesis, these models are the latest extension of an ongoing misaligned moloch-like entity, using our institutions/economy/corporations, etc. as its organelles. All powered, most recently, by fossil fuel.
Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by greenchair on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:08PM (#50432178)
the product owner/manager
Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by fph on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:42PM (#50431777)
Isn't this what driving a car has become as well? Google Maps says "take the 3rd exit", and the dumb human takes the 3rd exit.
Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by BodyCulture on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:51PM (#50431927)
I still see errors in AI output on a daily basis.
Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by theF00l on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:55PM (#50431990)
Yes but we see errors in human output too.
Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by segfaultex on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:15PM (#50432277)
Sure but humans aren’t being billed as “superintelligence”
Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by girvo on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:17PM (#50432295)
A human can be fired, or put on a PIP, and is otherwise responsible for their output.

An algorithm isn’t. I still dunno how they’re gonna square that circle.

Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by digdugdirk on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:57PM (#50432008)
Exactly. It will now be your job to catch those errors. Or else.