Microsoft has a new pitch to convince businesses to buy #Artificial Intelligence : use it and you won’t need as many employees.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-new-sales-pitch-for-ai-spend-less-money-on-humans?offer=email-monthly-digest-299-2025&cio_link_id=CIO--LINKID&utm_campaign=Leads%3A+Microsoft+Col&utm_content=6730&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=4646

Microsoft’s New Sales Pitch for AI: Spend Less Money on Humans

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft has a new pitch to convince businesses to buy #Artificial Intelligence : use it and you won’t need as many employees.  https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-new-sales-pitch-for-ai-spend-less-money-on-humans?offer=email-monthly-digest-299-2025&cio_link_id=CIO--LINKID&utm_campaign=Leads%3A+Microsoft+Col&utm_content=6730&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=4646

Nate

Firecrawl wants to hire AI agents: The YC-backed startup scrapes is seeking to hire AI agents ONLY for three new roles, mostly centering around designing and publishing SEO-friendly content that will help them rank in Google searches.  

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/y-combinator-startup-firecrawl-is-ready-to-pay-1m-to-hire-three-ai-agents-as-employees/?_bhlid=a8a2dac9a54e9f753a6444d8ddfc0a7e088d7ade

Firecrawl wants to hire AI agents: The YC-backed startup scrapes is seeking to hire AI agents ONLY for three new roles, mostly centering around designing and publishing SEO-friendly content that will help them rank in Google searches.    https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/y-combinator-startup-firecrawl-is-ready-to-pay-1m-to-hire-three-ai-agents-as-employees/?_bhlid=a8a2dac9a54e9f753a6444d8ddfc0a7e088d7ade

Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees, after a previous attempt to hire one didn't go as planned. Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent em

Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees | TechCrunch

Tasia

#Artificial Intelligence is becoming a #(Cool) Dev job requirement, not a novelty. Shopify now includes AI usage in performance reviews and asks teams to justify why AI can’t do a task before requesting headcount.

AI isn’t replacing devs — it’s upgrading them. At Shopify and beyond, using tools like Cursor & Copilot is now the norm. The real shift? Less coding, more design thinking. Time to level up your software design skills. 🧠💻 

https://ai.gopubby.com/ai-writes-my-code-for-me-9b7edad5fb12

(Cool) Dev

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke is requiring teams to prove that #Artificial Intelligence #Productivity Tool Junkies  tools can’t carry out their work before they receive more budget or head count, according to a memo he posted on X.

https://x.com/tobi/status/1909251946235437514?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14818&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

Productivity Tool Junkies

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke is requiring teams to prove that #Artificial Intelligence #Productivity Tool Junkies  tools can’t carry out their work before they receive more budget or head count, according to a memo he posted on X.  https://x.com/tobi/status/1909251946235437514?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14818&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify

tobi lutke on X: "Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify" / X

#Artificial Intelligence is becoming a #(Cool) Dev job requirement, not a novelty. Shopify now includes AI usage in performance reviews and asks teams to justify why AI can’t do a task before requesting headcount.  AI isn’t replacing devs — it’s upgrading them. At Shopify and beyond, using tools like Cursor & Copilot is now the norm. The real shift? Less coding, more design thinking. Time to level up your software design skills. 🧠💻   https://ai.gopubby.com/ai-writes-my-code-for-me-9b7edad5fb12

…and it’s making me a better engineer

AI writes my code for me

Bobby

Duolingo switches to #Artificial Intelligence  contractors: In an all-hands email sent to Duolingo staffers, the language education app’s co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announced that they’re becoming “AI-first.” Essentially, this means hiring human freelancers only after everyone is absolutely certain AI can’t automate their tasks instead. Von Ahn insists this isn’t about “replacing ‘Duos’ with AI” but removing bottlenecks, limiting “repetitive tasks,” and increasing efficiency.

https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers?_bhlid=8bb571b11cbbcc44a23f555f025f8eea328145ae

Duolingo switches to #Artificial Intelligence  contractors: In an all-hands email sent to Duolingo staffers, the language education app’s co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announced that they’re becoming “AI-first.” Essentially, this means hiring human freelancers only after everyone is absolutely certain AI can’t automate their tasks instead. Von Ahn insists this isn’t about “replacing ‘Duos’ with AI” but removing bottlenecks, limiting “repetitive tasks,” and increasing efficiency.  https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers?_bhlid=8bb571b11cbbcc44a23f555f025f8eea328145ae

Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

Jerome Cody

AI boosts dev productivity generally by 30% - beyond that its either hype or specialized cases,
usually pushed by people who are technical but not experienced developers.


https://medium.com/lets-code-future/i-replaced-a-full-team-with-these-15-ai-tools-and-saved-20-hours-week-15ce88f784ce

AI boosts dev productivity generally by 30% - beyond that its either hype or specialized cases, usually pushed by people who are technical but not experienced developers.   https://medium.com/lets-code-future/i-replaced-a-full-team-with-these-15-ai-tools-and-saved-20-hours-week-15ce88f784ce

If you’re not using AI yet, you’re not just behind — you’re wasting time.

Nate

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.