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Vol. 03: “The Workforce of the Damned:
Rat Racing toward the slaughterhouse

Pick me. Pick me. I am the freshest slab of meat…”

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Workforce of the Damned:

AI’s First Casualties

“We are all just rat racing straight to the slaughterhouse.”

-Your moms boyfriend

Your job isn’t safe. But is it first in line for deletion?

The quote that launched a thousand layoffs came quietly from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who warned shareholders that AI would “reduce our total workforce” over the next few years. No drama. No apology. Just a calm acknowledgment that humans are expensive, and AI is very, very not.

Two weeks later, Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees. Before that, 6,000 more. Engineers. PMs. Managers. Not interns — not support — everyone.

Google, Meta, Amazon — same pattern.

AI isn’t helping workers. It’s replacing them.
But who gets replaced first?

Entry-Level: Cannon Fodder with LinkedIn Badges

Conventional wisdom says junior employees are easiest to automate. Their tasks are repeatable, well-documented, and frequently thankless.

• Anthropic’s CEO says AI will replace half of all entry-level white-collar roles within 5 years.

• ADP data shows tech workers with under two years of experience are down 20–25% since 2023.

• Entry-level support, formatting, inbox triage? GPT can do that before your morning cold brew.

If your job can be explained in a Loom video, it’s probably at risk.

Middle Management: Still in the Building, Barely

Next tier up — the spreadsheet sculptors and email-forwarders. Surely they’re safer, right? Wrong.

• AI excels at structured outputs: reporting, budgeting, scheduling, doc review — the entire middle manager syllabus.

• Gartner’s CEO survey shows a trend: companies are openly implying they don’t need as many managers anymore.

• Microsoft’s latest layoffs? Thousands of middle managers.

“Anything spreadsheet-related, with an email trail — AI should be able to do it,” says Gartner VP David Furlonger.

Translation: If you manage process instead of people, your calendar is now automatable.

Senior Specialists: Your Rate Isn’t Enough Anymore

Senior devs. Contract lawyers. Ops pros. Anyone who built a career on rare skills, repetition, or technical language.

Surprise: you're in the blast radius too.

• Robert Plotkin, IP lawyer, now uses half the contract lawyers he did a few years ago. GPT drafts the patents — he just reviews.

• Danielle Li (MIT) warns that AI “untethers skills from the humans who had them.” You no longer need to be a developer to ship code. You don’t need a JD to file a legal brief.

• Microsoft is quietly axing senior devs who won’t adopt AI tooling.

If your value was built on doing the thing well, bad news…

AI can do the thing faster, and cheaper.

Who Stays: The Amplifiers

Not all roles are doomed — just the static ones.

What companies actually need now: humans who direct AI, not compete with it. The new survivor class is built around amplification.

• Junior coders who use GPT to hit 3x output

• Mid-career managers who use AI to mentor, ship faster, and clean up bloated orgs

• Consultants who stack GPTs to deliver scalable strategy with low overhead

If you can multiply your team’s effectiveness with AI you’re not a threat to replace.

You’re the one they keep.

The Replaceability Ladder (Early Read)

Next:

Redesigning Your Role in the Age of Models

In Part 2, we’ll cover:

• The new hybrid roles AI can’t touch (yet)

• How consultants, freelancers, and in-house staff can restructure around LLMs

• Why “prompt engineer” is already outdated and what replaces it

• The new rules of team-building when everyone has a robot assistant

Also: a breakdown of which skills are now “table stakes,” and which are legacy liabilities.

How to Hack Your Own X RSS Feed

X killed off native RSS. Doesn’t mean you can’t bring it back.

If you want a clean feed of a user, hashtag, or keyword, here’s the fast way:

Step 1: Go to TwitRSS.me

• Drop in the handle, search term, or hashtag you want.

• If you care about replies too, tick the box.

• Hit Fetch RSS.

Step 2: Grab the Link
The page will spit code at you (Chrome) or a preview feed (Firefox).

Ignore the noise. All you want is the URL.

• User feed looks like:
  https://twitrss.me/twitter_user_to_rss/?user=[USERNAME]

• Search feed looks like:
  http://twitrss.me/twitter_search_to_rss/?term=[SEARCH TERM]

Step 3: Save It Somewhere That Won’t Get Lost
Bookmark it, drop it in Notion, Evernote, whatever.

Now you can pipe it into any RSS reader or build a custom list out of it.

The play: X doesn’t want you curating your own streams.

This is how you take that control back.

The $1.80 Strategy, Everywhere

(No Hashtags Needed)

Gary Vee called it the “$1.80 Strategy” for Instagram: leave your “two cents” on 90 posts a day, show up enough to matter. The principle is solid — the execution is dated.

Here’s the version that works across platforms:

1. Pick your pond.
   X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit — doesn’t matter. Find where your buyers or peers actually hang out.

2. Find the conversations.
   Forget hashtags. Algorithms surface what’s trending, what’s hot, what your network is amplifying. Scroll until you see posts that are getting traction in your space.

3. Drop actual signal.
   Not “great post!” Not fire emojis. Add something that makes the thread better — an insight, a sharp one-liner, a clarifying question. Think “reply worth bookmarking.”

4. Stack consistency, not volume.
   Ninety comments a day is performative. Ten thoughtful ones daily beats a hundred throwaways. You want people to notice your pattern, not tune you out.

5. Track the doors it opens.
   The replies, follows, DMs, podcast invites, collabs — that’s the compounding interest. Don’t chase virality. Chase recognition.

The play: stop waiting for people to stumble on your content. Go seed your name where the attention already is. Drop cents until they add up to dollars.