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When Tech Billionaires Can’t Keep Their Story Straight: First AI Takes Your Job, Now It Doesn’t
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When Tech Billionaires Can’t Keep Their Story Straight: First AI Takes Your Job, Now It Doesn’t

Not even a year ago, the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS) dropped this hot take: "In 2 years, humans won’t be coding anymore. It’ll all be AI, which is smarter, cheaper, and more reliable than humans." Fast forward to today, and suddenly he’s saying: "Replacing junior staff with AI is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard." I mean… sir. Pick a lane. This, mind you, is right after Mark of Meta fame froze AI hiring after spending $150 million on one engineer. That’s not a strategy; that’s a costly midlife crisis. You couldn’t make this up if you tried. The gaslighting here is Olympic-level. These billionaires don’t have the faintest clue what’s happening in AI, let alone where it’s going. But the money they fling around? That mess ricochets straight into economies and people’s lives. The truth? ...
I don’t need an AI to finish my work—I need it to start.
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I don’t need an AI to finish my work—I need it to start.

When I’m staring at a blank page, the friction isn’t “Can I do this?” It’s “Where do I begin?” If an AI agent can turn my messy intent into a rough plan + a few concrete first moves, I suddenly have traction. Even partially completed is a win: a draft email ready for edits, a checklist spun up from a goal, a first pass at tasks in Jira/Asana with owners and rough estimates. I can then approve, tweak, or take it across the finish line. Would you let an AI agent actually plan and partially execute across your tools , wit the goal being just “get it moving”. submitted by /u/YakitoriSenpai [link] [comments]
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