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Tech cofounder's hiring post pokes fun at AI layoff email templates

Business Insider·Robert Scammell·25 days ago
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Your browser does not support the video element. AI has its fingerprints on a wave of recent layoffs. Rebecca Zisser/BI Linear's cofounder, Tuomas Artman, poked fun at AI-related layoff memos while announcing new job openings. Linear's hiring post went viral after companies like Snap and Coinbase cited AI in layoffs. The language these companies use has become all too familiar. A growing number of layoffs are being tied to AI , and one founder is poking fun at the boilerplate explanations companies keep using. Tuomas Artman, the cofounder of software company Linear, shared a hiring announcement dressed up in the language of those all-too-familiar layoff announcements. "Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We've made the difficult decision to increase our workforce," he wrote in a Friday post on X . "This is not a cost-cutting exercise or a reflection of anyone's performance. We're simply reimagining every role for the agentic AI era. We're hiring.…

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