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Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately
CEO Brian Armstrong mandated that all Coinbase engineers set up their GitHub Copilot or Cursor accounts within a week.
It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits. At the meeting, some people had reasonable explanations for not getting their AI assistant accounts set up during the week, like being on vacation, Armstrong said. Still, everything about that 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.
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