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Handed a Shovel, Twelve Dollars an Hour
Season 2026
Episode 6
Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Description
Award-winning Hollywood writers are being paid between twelve and two hundred dollars an hour to teach AI models how to write screenplays. Also: whether a real camera is still worth buying in 2026, and Linus Torvalds arguing a machine out of giving up.
In this edition
- 'Digging the Grave of My Profession'
- Meanwhile
- Be Worse At This On Purpose
- Something Weird
Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open: Paid To Be Unnecessary
0:38 — 'Digging the Grave of My Profession'
2:31 — Meanwhile
2:59 — Be Worse At This On Purpose
4:23 — Something Weird
5:26 — Tomorrow
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