Handed a Shovel, Twelve Dollars an Hour

The Daily Slop Show · Aug 27, 2026 · 5m

Award-winning Hollywood writers are being paid between twelve and two hundred dollars an hour to teach AI models how to write screenplays. Also: whether a real camera is still worth buying in 2026, and Linus Torvalds arguing a machine out of giving up.

In this edition

'Digging the Grave of My Profession'

Meanwhile

Be Worse At This On Purpose

Something Weird

Chapters

0:07 — Cold Open: Paid To Be Unnecessary

0:38 — 'Digging the Grave of My Profession'

2:31 — Meanwhile

2:59 — Be Worse At This On Purpose

4:23 — Something Weird

5:26 — Tomorrow

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