Growth, potential, and the Ascend program
A TechCrunch report found that early AI adopters are burning out faster than holdouts. Their to-do lists expanded to fill every hour AI freed up, and then kept going. The problem isn't the technology. The problem is that nobody updated the expectations.
Yang says AI will kick millions of white-collar workers to the curb in 12-18 months. He's being generous. The layoffs aren't coming — they're already here, moving in slow motion under names like 'efficiency gains' and 'not backfilling.'