News Summary

• Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted a mandate in the company’s main engineering Slack channel.
• Armstrong: “I said, ‘AI is important.
• We need you to all learn it and at least onboard.’” Some people had reasonable explanations for not getting their AI assistant accounts set up during the week, like being on vacation.
• Armstrong admits that it was a “heavy-handed approach” and there were people who “didn’t like it”