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title: "Dread Is Looking at the Wrong Side of the Net"
date: 2026-03-15
url: "https://x.com/ccatalini/status/2033180597317951943"
tags: ['ai-agi']
deck: "A machine that never tires screams substitution. But the same simulation capability is the most powerful training technology ever built — a decade of mastery compressed into a year."
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The honest reaction watching this is dread. A machine that never tires, never misses, never charges by the hour. It screams substitution. That instinct is not wrong. But you’re looking at the wrong side of the net. [x.com](https://twitter.com/zhikai273/status/2033035812431081778)

That same simulation capability is the most powerful training technology ever built. A decade of mastery, compressed into a year.

This isn’t just about juniors. Entry-level work is vanishing. Senior expertise is being mined into training data. The entire workforce must move up—toward steering intent, verifying agentic output, underwriting risk. Flight simulators for work are how you compress that leap.
