News Summary

• Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says he fired engineers who didn't use AI.
• He 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.” Armstrong says the company hosts monthly meetings where teams who have mastered creative ways to use AI share what they have learned.“I jumped on this call on Saturday and there Were a couple people that had not done it.
• Some of them had a good reason, because they were just getting back from some trip or something,” he said.