Jaden Schaefer

But I do think that we're reevaluating and we can do more with less due to AI.

So I think we're going to see kind of this initial wave of layoffs.

And then I think as the companies kind of find their equilibrium again, they'll start hiring people back and making sure that everyone they hire is kind of AI first and understands how to use these tools.

Some analysts say that companies are just basically using the AI as a convenient explanation for layoffs, right?

Like, hey, we got to become more profitable.

We're going to do layoffs and let's just blame it on AI.

But I think I think that's maybe partially true.

But I do believe that AI is actually, you know, dramatically increasing productivity.

And so you just don't need the same headcount to grow revenue.

And if meta actually follows through with the cuts that they're doing at this scale, while also ramping up AI spending, I think it could become one of the

biggest signals yet of how the AI economy is reshaping the tech industry.

So I guess if we just kind of zoom out on all of these stories I covered today, they basically all have the same theme, which is that AI is not just this kind of like cool technology experiment that it feels like we've been doing for the last couple years.

Right now, I think we're seeing 2026, I mean, especially with all the layoffs, that it is restructuring the entire industry, personalized medicine, you know,

trillion dollar chip infrastructure that's being built out.

There's private equity deploying AI across thousands of companies.

I think now is potentially one of the biggest workforce restructurings in, you know, big tech history that we're about to see.

I think the AI era is not coming, as I've been saying for a long time.

I think it's already here.

And this is probably going to accelerate on almost all of these kind of genres that I covered today.

So I'm