Rya Jetha

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36 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 11 Feb

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It's Been a Minute · Did the Cult of the Tech Job trick you too? · 11 Feb 2026 podcast

Going beyond college students, looking at people who are already in the workforce, there is this push within tech companies to mandate what they're calling AI fluency.

It's kind of this new diktat that's being passed to employees by their CEOs.

Hypocharge your productivity with AI or else.

One startup founder recently wrote, you know, 100% of new hires must be fluent in AI or

I think in your job, you're now expected to be experimenting with how AI can change processes and systems in your job and come up with new workflows and make you more efficient.

So, for example, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wrote to employees last year to educate themselves and attend workshops and take trainings and experiment with AI whenever they can.

I...

presume as more companies want to adopt AI and boost their efficiency that we see industries outside of just the tech industry asking their employees to experiment with AI.

Absolutely.

I mean, San Francisco is a town.

full of very professionally driven people.

And so I think this is on everyone's mind, regardless of whether you're an entry-level Woko or an experienced Woko.

I was talking to one startup founder a few weeks ago who kind of like summed up the current mood in the Valley very well.

And it was that...

Everyone feels a lot of fear and everybody is worried that their job might be eaten up by chat GPT-6 or chat GPT-7.

So I think this profound shift that both you and Natasha have alluded to is on everybody's mind here, because how could it not be?

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