Filed under workforce-productivity.
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- Essays··8 min read
Twelve Thousand at Shoprite, No Baseline Underneath
Shoprite runs generative-AI tools across 12,000 employees — 6.9% of its 174,000-person workforce — through a proprietary routing gateway that dispatches each request to the least expensive capable model. The group has not published a pre-deployment baseline, a cycle-time figure, or a per-engineer throughput measure against which the programme can be audited. METR's second-round productivity data shows why that gap matters: the counterfactual is disappearing faster than the measurement apparatus can catch it.
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The Sow Barn's Missing Hands
China's agricultural labour force has halved since 1991, with three-quarters of what remains now over fifty. Muyuan Foods runs 583 commercial hogs per employee, a ratio only possible because sensor grids and vision models have replaced the stockmen demographic gravity removed. The cost improvement is real and auditable; immunity from the pork price cycle is not, and the Solow productivity paradox looks the same from inside a sow barn.
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