AI isn’t replacing jobs — it’s creating more of them. Why AI jobs grow in 2026, who actually gets hired, and why AI-driven layoffs backfire. Everyone says AI automation kills work. We think that take is lazy and wrong.

In this episode, we argue that AI creates more jobs by making creation cheap and verification the bottleneck. When generative AI floods teams with code, content, and decisions, the scarce resource becomes judgment. Editors. Reviewers. Senior engineers. Humans-in-the-loop.

We break down:

• Why AI failures (hello, automated recaps) expose the real choke point
• How radiologists and software teams prove the same pattern
• Why junior roles aren’t dead — but the pipeline is changing
• Why 2026 is the reckoning year for “AI layoffs”
• What companies get catastrophically wrong about productivity

If you think AI replaces people, this episode will annoy you.
If you think output can explode without more humans, you’re not thinking hard enough.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Is AI Replacing Jobs? – The narrative everyone believes (and why it’s misleading)
04:55 AI Editing Failures Explained – Fallout recaps, review debt & human verification
09:40 Why AI Creates More Jobs – Radiologists, throughput & Jevons paradox
16:30 The Junior Developer Problem – AI coding, slop & broken hiring pipelines
23:45 The 2026 AI Jobs Reckoning – Layoffs, productivity myths & what companies get wrong

⚡ Listen now & get self-aware before your tools do.

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