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BBT #09 Snippet | AI Isn't Coming for Your Job — It's Coming for Your Salary
Companies aren't replacing workers with AI. They're replacing expensive workers with cheaper workers who can operate AI. Fire the senior engineer at $200K, hire two juniors at $95K each who use Codex to do 70% of the work. That's not digital transformation — that's cost arbitrage.
Malcolm and Thomas break down the real way AI is reshaping the workforce — not the headline version. They talk about what displacement actually looks like, why "learn AI" is incomplete advice, and what continuous learning really means when the tools change every six months.
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00:00 — The Impact of AI on…
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