142,000 tech workers laid off in the first five months of 2026. Companies blamed AI for 26% of April's cuts alone.


But only 10% of firms actually use AI to produce anything yet. Most of these cuts are companies front-running a future they haven't built.
The people learning to build with these tools right now will be impossible to replace in 18 months.
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