Zuckerberg, in contrast to Gale, has said outright that AI is making some hiring unnecessary. “We’re starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person,” he said in the January earnings call.

“AI won’t replace us, we’re just going to be working more productively with AI” said the useful software engineer, naively parroting Big Tech’s corporate PR.

Everyone should be reading Marx.