Marc Andreessen

And then I think you can predict a similar outcome.

And then that gets us to the bloat topic, which is, of course, the other thing that's happening is, of course, companies announcing big layoffs.

And then, you know, of course, immediately it's like, you know, two plus two must equal four.

And so if it's AI coding, it must therefore translate into layoffs.

And, you know, Mark, you're wrong.

You know, therefore, all of your ideas are wrong because that's evidence that, you know, these companies are wiping out their employees.

you know, they're reducing their workforces or really nuking them because of AI coding.

And I guess there again, this is like maybe the inside baseball take on it, but I see it up close, which is just every major Silicon Valley company is overstaffed.

Every major Silicon Valley company has been overstaffed basically forever.

They all know it.

There's a whole variety of reasons why it's the case.

By the way, I think this is true basically of just like, you know, corporate America broadly,

you know, companies broadly.

We can talk in detail about why that's the case because it flies in the face of the idea that these companies optimize for profits, which they definitely do not.

Um, like the one thing that is the least true claim in the world is that companies are optimized for profitability, which is 100% not true.

Um, uh, and so, um, and so, you know, and then, you know, basically if you're going to do a big cut, like if you want to do a big cut, if you want to take out, you know, whether it's 15% or 40% or whatever, like obviously you want to, you want to scapegoat, right?

You just, you want to peg it on something.

Um, and so, um, of course it didn't get pegged on AI.

And again, it's not like it's just like a straight lie.

Like it is simultaneously true that there are these massive, you know, for this same amount of coding, you can now have fewer people using tools.