Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 people as Anthropic's S-1 shows revenue up fourteenfold. What the two filings say together about payroll, vendors and who owns the customer.
AI can now write a flawless-sounding incident report in seconds. That's not a safety win. It's the exact trap that keeps organizations from fixing what's actually broken.
A bull and a skeptic on AI writing reached the same rule: let it edit, never draft. That line tells you which of your team's writing is safe to automate.
The visible signs of AI writing fade as models improve. What stays is that you can't defend work you never understood, and at some point someone asks.
Working code is becoming cheap. What stays scarce is judgment about what to build and whether it was worth building. That is the engineer worth becoming.
