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AI Has Made Skilled Labour Almost Free (And It’s Scary)

October 3, 2026 · 29 min

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Our world already has an instant gratification problem and AI has somehow made it worse. It's making skilled work faster and cheaper than ever, which in turn makes us more impatient than ever. Why should we spend a week learning a new SEO tool or a new coding method when we can just ask our AI to do it in a snap? In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike discuss AI-powered instant gratification, the pressure to constantly build and experiment, and the strange feeling that when almost anything can be made quickly, maybe we should be doing everything.

Show Notes: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/podcast/ai-has-made-skilled-labour-almost-free-and-its-scary

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