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Issue # 46

81,747 tech layoffs. 500,000 AI jobs created. $170K in hackathon prizes open right now. This Sunday is about one thing: which side of the shift are you on?

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Featured Spotlight

McKinsey just mapped what the agentic organization looks like. Most companies aren't building it yet.

Campaigns moving 10–15x faster. Personalization getting sharper. Revenue lift hitting 10–30%. That's not a prediction, it's already happening inside companies that redesigned workflows around agentic AI.

Image source: McKinsey & Company

The ones who haven't? They're now competing against teams that just got 10x faster.

The shift isn't about using AI tools. It's about rebuilding the entire workflow from scratch. The window to redesign before your competitors do is closing.

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New This Week

The Nvidia CEO fired back. He named names.

Jensen Huang took direct aim at leaders like Anthropic's Dario Amodei who warned that half of entry-level jobs could vanish. Huang called that thinking unhelpful.

His counter: AI has already added over 500,000 jobs. Companies adopting AI are hiring faster, not slower. Trillions more coming to the US economy.

His advice: master AI as a tool, not a threat. The opportunity isn't disappearing — it's shifting to whoever moves first.

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Builder Signal

81,747 tech cuts in 90 days. The worst quarter in 2 years.

The Kobeissi Letter published numbers that reframe the entire jobs debate. March alone: 45,800 cuts — worst single month in at least two years. Up 580% since Q4 2025.

Image source: Kobeissi Letter

It's not slowing down. Meta plans to cut ~8,000 employees. Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to ~7% of its US workforce — which could transition into layoffs if participation is low. Read more here

The driver: tech giants are shifting spending toward AI chips and data centers, trimming staff to free up capital for infrastructure. US tech employment is rapidly contracting.

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AI Career Opportunities

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Final Note

The only question is whether you're positioned for the roles being created or the ones being eliminated. The ones who answer that first get to choose where they land.

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