{"id":957157,"date":"2025-08-23T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957157"},"modified":"2025-08-23T11:54:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:24:45","slug":"coinbase-ceo-says-he-fired-some-employees-who-didnt-adopt-ai-adds-that-engineers-must","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/23\/coinbase-ceo-says-he-fired-some-employees-who-didnt-adopt-ai-adds-that-engineers-must\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase CEO says he fired some employees who didn&#8217;t adopt AI, adds that engineers must\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong revealed he terminated employees who failed to adopt artificial intelligence tools after issuing a company-wide mandate requiring engineers to integrate AI into their workflow by a specific deadline. Speaking on the &#8220;Cheeky Pint&#8221; podcast Wednesday, Armstrong described going &#8220;rogue&#8221; when told AI adoption would take one to two quarters. Instead, he posted directly in the company&#8217;s Slack channel demanding all engineers onboard AI tools within the week or attend a mandatory Saturday meeting to explain their resistance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If not, I&#8217;m hosting a meeting on Saturday with everyone who hasn&#8217;t done it and I&#8217;d like to meet with you to understand why,&#8221; Armstrong said during the podcast interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong revealed he terminated employees who failed to adopt artificial intelligence tools after issuing a company-wide mandate requiring engineers to integrate AI into their workflow by a specific deadline. Speaking on the &#8220;Cheeky Pint&#8221; podcast Wednesday, Armstrong described going &#8220;rogue&#8221; when told AI adoption would take one to two quarters. Instead, he posted directly in the company&#8217;s Slack channel demanding all engineers onboard AI tools within the week or attend a mandatory Saturday meeting to explain their resistance. &#8220;If not, I&#8217;m hosting a meeting on Saturday with everyone who hasn&#8217;t done it and I&#8217;d like to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}