That just means he’s not a middle manager or exec, not that he isn’t cashing the check from someone who is clearly a short sighted idiot.

It wasn't meant to be a literal statement, more just a reflection that the situation is so bleak that I cannot imagine a better future; anybody expressing even a little bit of it seems to me like a somebody who has not been crushed into compliance through force.

Quoting the host of the recurring Quiz Broadcast sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Look: "Books mention 'hope'. What was 'hope'?"

Companies ultimately don’t have a choice here.

They can do what works, or they can fail. Large enough companies with enough inertia can do really dumb things for a while, but even giants fall.

I'm confused by your answer because I can't tell which way you're going.

Are you saying companies have to mandate AI everywhere?

Or are you saying the exact opposite, as your second sentence suggests?

I haven't heard of AI mandates in small companies, only in big ones.

He's just making a general "efficient markets" argument. He's arguing that whatever happens in a couple of years will be the right thing, no matter what is happening now.

That is essentially not an argument in any direction.

It’s also one which ignores the “market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”

Inshallah

If it works. Where is this 100x software output? I just see more AI tools to check it does not derail, but where is the actual software revolution, where all developers are fired? I'm still closing AI PR slop here

If it is 100x anything more interesting than line count, it will be micro-projects: Local barber wants a new website. Architecht wants to put their own plan into a numerical physics simulation library someone else wrote that has its own syntax. Schoolkid wants a customised word puzzle app for the foreign language they struggle with. They couldn't possibly code it themselves, but they can check what it is doing.

Trust without verification though, we're waiting for AI's Challenger disaster equivalent.

I'm not going to speak to the output side of your comment, but yes, developers are being fired over AI.

> The latest layoffs across all tech companies. So far in 2026, there have been 421 layoffs at tech companies with 157,807 people impacted (882 people per day). In 2025, there were 783 layoffs at tech companies w/ 245,953 people impacted (674 people per day).

https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

The fact that rich CEOs firing saying "it's because of AI" doesn't make it true. It's just marketing for investors

or they just need really capable AI that are better than 99% human

If that ever happens the limiting factor will be management.

Perhaps that's where it gets interesting.