AI is already nibbling away at the task-level parts of our jobs, but how close is it to doing the whole thing? This post explores targeted automation projects like OpenAI’s ‘Project Mercury’, real-world results from the Remote Labour Index, and experiments with AI-run companies to ask whether AI is really coming for your job – or just tidying up your to-do list and freeing you to focus on the messy, political, gloriously human bits. Spoiler: augmentation wins, at least for no