The current tech layoffs are pandemic over-hiring correcting itself, with AI as the convenient excuse.

What these subjects mean

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

hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

On the topicWill AI take the jobs?under our view: The confident forecasts are themselves the overreach

What David Heinemeier Hansson actually said

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

In tension with

AI could displace half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years, even while it accelerates economic growth.

Amodei reads the labour market as being reshaped by AI. Hansson reads the same layoffs as pandemic over-hiring correcting itself with AI supplied as the cover story. Both can be true at once — a forecast about the coming years is not refuted by a different cause for this year’s cuts — and the disagreement is about which one the current evidence supports.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.