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July 12, 2026

The Workforce Bifurcation, and What Perplexity's Failures Tell Us

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Sunday, July 12, 2026

The Workforce Bifurcation, and What Perplexity's Failures Tell Us

The annual AI sentiment survey drops and the headline is a split: tech workers who have figured out AI are thriving, everyone else is burning out. Meanwhile, Ben Tossell's critique of Perplexity is a useful case study in what happens when AI product demos don't survive contact with real users.

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