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The 12-Second Palm Reader: Why No Job is "Safe" from AI
A craft that survived thousands of years was just replaced by a single prompt. If a palm reader's intuition can be compressed into an API call, what's next?
From Ancient Craft to API Call
I built a palm reader on PUCO yesterday. You take a photo of your hand, send it through ChatGPT, and twelve seconds later, you have a full reading: heart line, life line, fate line, and mounts.
The Cathedral of Mystery
Whether or not you believe in the mystical side of palm reading is beside the point. A palm reader in Switzerland might charge 80 francs for a session. Now, that entire experience has been replaced by a machine that doesn't blink.
What Falls Next?
We tend to worry about factory workers, but the professions built on "intuition" turn out to be incredibly easy to digitize. If 3,000 years of tradition can be automated in a weekend, what is the next "safe" job to fall?