Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didnt try AI immediately | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says he fired engineers who didn't use AI.
- 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.’” Armstrong admits that it was a “heavy-handed approach” and there were people who “didn’t like it’ Armstrong has leaned further into the training since then.
Its hard to find programmers these days who arent using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits.But those who refused to try the tools when Coinbase [+2565 chars]
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