Issue #108 - ChatGPT Chose Me

August 17, 2025
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In This Issue

  • What Caught My Attention This Week
    • Morgan Stanley on humanoid robot economics.
    • Computer science majors are now facing higher unemployment rates than art history majors.
  • A Chart to Look Smart
    • Gartner’s market value collapses.
  • What’s AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
    • Learn what Burda and Delta are doing with AI.
  • Prompting
    • Think harder, GPT-5.
    • Selling prompts for fun and profit.
  • The Way We Work Now
    • The world’s best hacker is now an AI.
  • How Do You Feel?
    • Vogue starts using AI-generated fashion models, the world ends.
    • AI-facilitated psychosis is a now thing.

PSA

I wish I could tell you that Synthetic Work took a break to allow me to have a well-deserved vacation, but no.
Synthetic Work took a break because I was busy with a house move (also known as “hell”).

As I moved, I had a chance to interact with several workers I normally don’t talk to.

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