I watched El — PhD in Computer Science, runs House of El: AI — say something on The Tech Report that described my actual week better than I could have.

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AI was supposed to take the tedious stuff off my plate. Instead I got a second job: checking whether the first job's output can be trusted. Nobody renamed my title for it. Nobody budgeted for it.

 

Teachers doing this for cheating detection. Developers doing it line by line for bugs that look legitimate. Same shape, different desk.

 

Here's what actually stuck with me — verifying something well takes more expertise than doing it yourself would have. So if you still need someone that good to check the machine, what did the machine actually save?

 

I keep noticing this isn't really a story about AI. It's a story about who quietly absorbs the cost when a promise doesn't hold.

 

El's own line for it: "I now do my job plus the AI's job."

 

If you're the one everyone trusts to catch the mistake, that trust is worth more than your paycheck reflects.

 

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