David Sacks

Job postings for software developers have hit a new three-year high, despite the fact that coding is the single breakout use case of AI this year.

So if AI has not caused job elimination for software developers, what category has it caused?

I mean, code is now the number one use case, I think, of AI in the enterprise.

Okay, Bill Gurley, I'm going to let you chime in here.

You've got two besties saying, hey, this is all hogwash.

It's AI washing.

These jobs were just, you know, the strategy, obviously, in Silicon Valley was to hire- They needed a scapegoat.

They needed a scapegoat.

They hired two years ahead of time, billed for the future, and it was a vanity metric, and you were blocking talent from working on other startups or competitors.

That's the thing.

Hold on.

Yes, that was the explicit strategy from Google.

are now realizing you're just like everybody else.

Okay, we have to stay humble, as Sachs said, but Bill Gurley, would you like to apologize for Sachs and or give him credit for his incredible non-consensus prediction?

Hold on.

He wasn't the one promoting the jobs apocalypse.

You were.

It was you.

No, no, no.

I will give my thoughts in a moment.