Coinbase is now testing 1 person teams + AI agents and announced laying off 700 employees.

Other companies doing this (layoffs + AI):

1. Shopify: No new headcount unless you prove AI can’t do the job.
2. Block: Cutting ~4,000 roles (~40%); Dorsey says AI lets much smaller teams do more.
3. Klarna: Its AI assistant now does work equivalent to about 700 support roles.
4. Duolingo: Went “AI‑first,” telling teams to rebuild workflows around AI before hiring.
5. Salesforce: Paused new engineering hires after AI tools boosted dev productivity ~30%.
6. Amazon: Cutting about 16,000 corporate jobs this year in an efficiency/automation push.
7. Meta: Cutting ~10% of staff and freezing thousands of open roles as it doubles down on AI.

882 jobs per day disappearing in tech. This is the pace right now.

And I think that's going to accelerate and move beyond tech.

My POV:

Every single one of these companies is telling you the same thing: one person with AI can do what used to take a team.

They're literally saying it with their org charts.

If you're employed, build a 1 person team on the side.

If you're laid off, build one today. The tools that made your role redundant are the same tools that let you build your own company.

The biggest wave of new startups is going to come from people who got restructured out of exactly these announcements.

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