The "AI can replace most knowledge workers" narrative seems to ignore that many businesses are still using COBOL, Windows XP, and other things that arguably "should" have been replaced by now.

Yes, we've seen high-profile mass layoffs in favor of AI (and some reversing of those decisions), but those of us who worked on fixing code to mitigate Y2K problems know that business systems en masse don't turn on a dime for anything.

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