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A company must cut half its engineers to pay for the other half's tokens, and that is what the layoffs are actually about.

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AI and jobs Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.

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  1. Steve Yegge Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google
    Because they're all starting to spend their own salaries in tokens. And so, at least for a while, if you want your engineers to be as productive as possible, you're going to have to get rid of half of them to make the other half maximally productive.

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    11 Mar 2026 · video · 1h 32m · spoken · machine transcript

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