observation · 17 Oct 2025 · 1:10:30

Andrej Karpathy observes that call center jobs have properties that make them more amenable to automation, such as repetitive tasks and limited context.

Call center employees have a number of simplifying properties with respect to what's automatable today. Their jobs are pretty simple. It's a sequence of tasks, and every task looks similar.

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