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New comment by mgaldys4 in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

mgaldys4 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:33:18 +0000

Put it bluntly: the weavers who could be replaced by the spinning jenny were clearly doing repetitive labor. People writing code and maintaining project pipelines a few years ago relied heavily on experience, but in a sense that was also "repetitive labor." Replacing repetitive labor and freeing up productivity is of course progress.

But reform always has its victims. Like the textile workers who starved in the streets centuries ago, and me, kicked to death in the street by AI today...

New comment by mgaldys4 in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

mgaldys4 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:29:43 +0000

I think that's right. Expert experience used to be almost the most precious and valuable part of the computer field, but today that experience has been "distilled" into SOTA models.

New comment by mgaldys4 in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

mgaldys4 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:13:31 +0000

Even the Millennium Prize Problems have, in a way, become benchmarks for model companies to prove themselves. The smartest individuals among humans are becoming replaceable. Intelligence has become a product you can quantify and buy with electricity. That feels awful.