🔥 Jack Dorsey's AI Warning Is Here

PLUS: Perplexity's agent is here, Anthropic says software engineers won't be

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🗞️In this edition

The job market just changed forever.

This week, a CEO fired half his company and blamed AI. An Anthropic exec predicted software engineers won't exist by year-end. And a new agent just launched that does your computer work for you.

Three stories. One verdict.

What's happening:

Block cut 4,000 employees in one day. Not because business is failing, revenue is growing. Because "intelligence tools paired with smaller teams enable a new way of working."

Why this is important:

This isn't cost cutting disguised as AI. It's a CEO saying the efficiency gains are real and immediate.

Every company watched what happened to Block's stock. Cut half your workforce, cite AI, shares surge. The market just told every CEO what it rewards.

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What's happening:

Agents needed local access to work. Security teams blocked them everywhere. Perplexity moved everything to a cloud sandbox. Nineteen models, zero system access, no deployment barrier.

Companies can finally use what they've been funding.

Why this is important:

Every agent company hit the same wall. Enterprises wanted the capability, security wouldn't allow the risk.

Perplexity separated power from danger. Managed cloud execution means no more IT veto. The adoption curve just shifted from blocked to accelerating.

Speed determines who wins now.

Comments from the editor:

The technology existed. The business case existed. Only trust was missing.

Perplexity proved agents don't need your computer to change your company. When the security barrier falls, deployment becomes a speed game.

What's happening:

Boris Cherny created Claude Code at Anthropic. He hasn't written a single line by hand since November. The tool recreated a year of Google engineer work in one hour.

Now he's predicting the job title goes away in 2026.

Why this is important:

CEO Dario Amodei agrees: six to twelve months until AI does most or all SWE work end-to-end.

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We are watching the end of an era in real time.

The titles, the teams, the workflows built over decades are being rewritten. Not gradually. Not carefully. Now.

The only question left is who adapts first.

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