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Mainframes Won’t Save Us - Debunking the Comfort Narratives Around Gen-AI

Mainframes Won’t Save Us - Debunking the Comfort Narratives Around Gen-AI

Why six comforting beliefs about AI are blinding us to the economic collapse already underway.

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André Figueira
Jun 03, 2025
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Brace yourselves, this is a long one…

In my last article “The Coming Collapse of White-Collar Work” I argued that Gen-AI will hollow out the middle layers of white-collar work and cause a potential collapse of the white-collar economy, the push-back, was predictable…

“COBOL still runs the world, so change will be slow.”

“Every tech wave ends up creating m…

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