A Narrative That Moved Faster Than Reality Between 2022 and 2025, the tech industry went all-in on...
A Narrative That Moved Faster Than Reality
Between 2022 and 2025, the tech industry went all-in on artificial intelligence.
Billions of dollars were invested by companies like Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft, driven by a powerful belief:
AI would fundamentally replace human engineers and dramatically reduce workforce needs.
What followed was one of the largest waves of layoffs in tech history.
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Twenty years ago at Microsoft I helped build a product that should have ended an elite profession. Demand exploded instead.
