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What happened
ClickUp, a fast-growing software company, laid off nearly a quarter of its employees even though its business is booming. At the same time, it announced it would pay up to one million dollars a year to engineers who are skilled at directing and managing AI systems rather than writing code themselves. The company called itself a '100x organization.'
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
This is one of the clearest real-world examples yet of AI replacing jobs not because a company is struggling, but because it no longer needs as many people to do the same amount of work. The jobs that remain pay more — but there are far fewer of them. This pattern, if it spreads, reshapes what a career in tech looks like and raises hard questions about what happens to everyone else.
Takeaway
Companies are now profitable enough to grow while shrinking their workforce. That used to be impossible. Now it's a strategy.
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