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Canadian employers are paying the price after AI proves unable to replace laid off staff
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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Paywalled shit source.
At least 3 times a week I hear some middle manager tell me that "AI is going to replace everything!" I 100% agree that LLMs can replace micro-managing money-holes but that's only because those are parasitic non-jobs to begin with. A middle manger is someone who can not DO anything useful but also can not make any decisions without their boss' approval.
Actual productive Canadians, who have to do something with their hands or create something with their minds are not replaceable. They are not machines who generate easy to read e-mails or nicely formatted document summaries. They are skilled humans who have years of experience that has not been included in an LLM, because it has never been included in some publicly accessible website or database.