Hacker News: kllamnjrohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kllamnjroHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 16 May 2026 12:06:21 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by kllamnjro in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"]]>I think they meant that there was a time when people’s jobs were:

1. either reading notes in shorthand, or reading something from a sheet that was already fully typed using a typewriter, or listening to recorded or live dictation

2. then typing that content out into a typewriter.

People were essentially human copying machines.

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