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Eric pulls up a Financial Times chart showing that the companies spending most on AI are hiring more people, not fewer, and he and Neil use it to take apart the everyone-loses narrative. Neil recounts debating Search Atlas co-founder Monik, who is convinced AI will gut white collar work, and explains why he is seeing the exact opposite across thousands of client companies. They run the historical receipts on radiology, ATMs, and the spreadsheet, argue over whether Google is simply bloated, and look at why HighLevel scaled from 2,000 to roughly 3,000 staff. A detour into an employee who stole from both their companies turns into a lesson on where to spend your attention. The headline fear is loud, but the data underneath tells a different story.

Key takeaways

◾Companies with the highest AI adoption are growing headcount, not cutting it

◾Efficiency raises demand, so you end up needing more engineers

◾Every past automation scare created more jobs than it destroyed

Chapters

00:00 The FT chart everyone misreads

00:52 We're only seven months in

01:20 The white-collar reduction debate

02:26 Why Google looks bloated

03:27 Efficiency means more engineers

04:14 Do more or charge less

05:04 AI creates abundance, not scarcity

05:49 Radiology, ATMs and spreadsheets

06:34 Who pays if the jobs vanish?

08:13 The AI bubble chart

09:25 Only 12 of 8,000 are AI-pilled

09:55 HighLevel's jump to 3,000 staff

11:33 Most companies only do table stakes

12:14 The employee who stole from both

14:42 The lesson: just move on

15:14 The billionaire who destroys rivals

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