Raw LLM Responses

Interestingly, the expected labour productivity increases (and consequent unemployment) from PCs and automation didn't really happen. A reason was that businesses found extra work to do. An example of this was my first workplace, a small tech contractor, in 1984. We had one receptionist/secretary who, amongst other things, typed out and photocopied our sales proposals and product docs, with the draughtsman adding any illustrations. Nowadays, an equivalent business (pre-AI anyway) would have several people producing glossy documents (PDF) and web pages which achieved the same as our basic docs, but cost a lot more, even with the technology used. (all the businesses in the industry felt obliged to upgrade their collateral in order to keep up with the competition).