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      "text": "How many GPUs does it take to get rid of you?"
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      "text": "If you can spin up new AI agents for almost nothing,"
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      "text": "just the cost of running a GPU,"
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      "text": "then wages for cognitive work collapse to zero."
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      "text": "That's the conclusion most people are drawing."
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      "text": "And it's kind of right,"
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      "text": "but the reasoning to get there is backwards."
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      "text": "So what's an agent?"
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      "text": "You can model that"
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      "text": "could work, comes out as tech and not workers. That distinction is the important part."
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      "text": "If you call agents a form of labor, that puts the pricing question in the labor market, where infinite supply would clear wages at zero."
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      "text": "But agents inherit their supply from compute. That means they need fabs and energy,"
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      "text": "as well as water, land, and the right passport to buy chips."
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      "text": "All of this is finite and slow to expand."
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      "text": "So the thing that can change is not the amount of labor, but the amount of compute."
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      "text": "Wages on cognitive tasks that can be automated now get priced into the compute market, scaled by how good the model is."
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      "text": "The wage ceiling for these substitutable tasks comes out to three things multiplied together:"
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      "text": "1. How productive you are relative to an agent."
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      "text": "3. The rental rate of that compute."
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      "text": "Let's plug in today's numbers."
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      "text": "H100s rent for about $2 an hour."
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      "text": "If you're as productive as the agent, your ceiling lands around $2 an hour."
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      "text": "So, here's the thing."
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      "text": "Old theory said high-skill cognitive workers win, while routine, unskilled workers lose."
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      "text": "But with AI agents, the split actually runs through cognitive work itself."
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      "text": "The dividing line moved inside the white-collar category."
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      "text": "The partner does strategy, client management, courtroom work. That's complementary work."
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      "text": "Same industry on paper, but a world of difference between them."
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      "text": "So stop thinking about the labor market and start thinking about the compute market."
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      "text": "It's really about how many GPUs it takes to do your job."
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