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If a hundred-times-more-productive engineer still works eight hours a day, the company captures all of the new value and the engineer none of it.

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AI and jobs Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.

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  1. Steve Yegge Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google
    let's say an engineer can be 100 times as productive, just just for sake of argument, all right? Who captures that value? If the if the engineer goes to work and works for 8 hours a day and produces 100 times as much, the company captured all of that value.

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    11 Mar 2026 · video · 1h 32m · spoken · machine transcript

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