Switching from human labor to AI is like going straight to a unionized workforce, except it's not a collection of reasonable human beings with human needs, it's a well funded machine with only exponential profit in mind
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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Seriously. A human workforce could never dream of being capable of the same insatiable greed as the gigacorps trying to sell AI.
Can't read the whole article bc paywall... But if they are really worried about token cost for converting PDF to a Powerpoint, they ain't seen nothing yet. Agentic coding the way AI companies push it (multiple agents in parallel with Claude, looping etc) uses way way wayyyyy more tokens than this.
Have you used Opus 4.8 at API costs? Without using agents, I can burn $20 an hour no problem. I use Kimi K2.6 and GLM 5.2 these days.
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Really? Been a minute since I have done a presentation, but:
Pandoc PDF to Markdown.
Markdown to paste into your favorite HTML presentation tool.
Nobody is stupid enough to still use Powerpoint right? Right?
Or the 'modern workflow' version of tell the AI you want to convert the PDF, so it burns a bunch of tokens installing pandoc and converting it for you!
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You know, if we were taught to use something like LaTeX, this wouldn't be an issue because of BEAMER
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Ooh, I think I'll start using CoPilot to do basic math and unit conversions in addition to doing them the correct way. Then I can note in my goals & reviews how I have been utilizing the AI resource and keeping tabs on its advancement.
All this money that is being spent, where does it end up?
Nvidias pocket maybe. CEOs? Billionares?
Various designing firms.
After the bubble bursts, law firms, because everyone starts suing everyone to get back money they didn't necessarily have, but still spent, because somebody will soon sue them.
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converting pdfs to presentation
I don't get this, We've had OCR for a while. All around San Francisco Ive been seeing ads for "llamaparse" with the tagline "we parse pdfs", like is that all you do? How do you afford this marketing budget?
PDFs are so shitty to work with, it's like translating them, it's impossible without using a tool like Google translate.
I fucking hate PDFs as much as I hate Adobe.
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