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 admits that it was a “heavy-handed approach” and there were people who “didn’t like it.” The company now hosts monthly meetings where teams who have mastered creative ways to use AI share what they have learned, Armstrong said.
• The company did not respond to a request for comment.
• The story is wild: that there were engineers who wouldn”t spend a few minutes of their week signing up for and testing the AI assistant — the most hyped tech for coders ever — and that Armstrong was willing to fire them over it.