Zoe Schiffer

I talked to employees who are on Instagram and they say, look, our main competitor is TikTok.

TikTok's not an AI company.

So in fact, you're trying to index on this thing that's really not at all why we're printing

money and now you're laying a bunch of us off because of that thing when actually we're doing our jobs quite well because, again, the company's printing money.

No, and I talked to—

I talked to two people who were, like, personally recruited by Mark Zuckerberg to join the kind of very fancy AI effort, and both of them said, look, the vision was AI-generated slop for Instagram and the other meta properties.

Like, it just wasn't uninspiring.

Meanwhile, you have OpenAI and Anthropic, you know, not to say they've done it, but their mission is we're going to completely change the economy and cure cancer.

As opposed to make your grandmother's feed the most destructive sign you can ever see.

I have talked to a ton of people about this, and my opinion, which I'm open to evolving over time, is that if you have really talented high-level engineers, they can manage agents that will do the work of lower-level engineers.

And so what you're losing out on is like the entry-level jobs, and we're seeing that in studies.

So when we look at job loss and AI job replacement, what's happening is that entry-level jobs are being replaced by artificial intelligence.

You know, it's interesting.

Brian brought up Google I.O., which I am reluctant to talk about.

This is amazing.

Demis Hassabis talked to Will Knight, one of our reporters today, and he said, I don't think that we should be having layoffs.

I think that AI should create more productivity and we should be doing more.

And so I think you're going to see companies that are like...

Yeah, we can do even more than we could previously.

We're just going to do more things, build more things, ship more product.