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It was in one paragraph mentioned, without much detail. But yes, I agree it is one of the largest barriers.


Where's that stat from?

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-an...

That's 30% positive on productive/informed, and only ~5% on hinders.

Whether you think AI will turn out bad (say by killing us all) is a different question from whether it is positive or negative at the moment.


> and eventually AI model will be commodified

This axiom not being true (and I'd bet against it) means your overall conclusion is false.


Tech workers get paid in equity and many in the semiconductor industry are making far far more than this a year with all the equity appreciation.


How does delaying the release not solve anything? It puts everyone on a notice to fix all security vulnerabilities now


Because the only thing keeping those vulnerabilities in existence was laziness.


"laziness" is an interesting reframing of "rational cost-benefit analysis and the limits of the human mind".


I hate waiting on hold for 30 minutes even more.


There's literally a link on the blog post to an article noting they hit $150M ARR.


Voice agents have capabilities and policy to alter customer state. Just the other day I called into a CC company and the AI waived an interest charge.


Not all companies do that.

There's a certain vendor that requires me to place same-day orders by a specific time. You can easily place an order from the website. If you need to cancel one, you have to ignore the grayed out cancel button and call their cancellation support line. There you'll talk to an agent that doesn't have access to cancel orders, so you have to convince it that it can't help you before you can transfer to a real employee with the ability to hit the "cancel" button.


and just today i talked to a bot about a missing item from an order and it had to call in a rep to push the button to ship me the replacement. except the rep’s messages seemed to filter through ai as well so what should have taken 20 seconds took 2m between messages. it could be good, but as the other commenter said some places are in a weird shittier hybrid model.


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MCP-Atlas: The Opus 4.6 score has been updated to reflect revised grading methodology from Scale AI.


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