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General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz · May 6, 2026 · Essay, The "AI Job Apocalypse" Is a Complete Fantasy

Doomers want you to ignore the history of innovation, freeze-frame the collapsing cost of cognition, and call it the whole movie.

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