AI Layoffs Aren't About AI

Let me try to explain these AI layoffs.The issue is the vast difference in quality of employee between the top 10% and everyone else. AI can't come anywhere close (today) to replacing the top performers at a big company.But they're spending millions a year on tens of thousands of employees in the bottom 75% of the quality scale. And AI is now getting good enough to replace THEM. Not directly, yet, but by having top performers do more of their work with AI.So it's not that AI is better than top performers. It's not.The issue is 90% of employees aren't in the top 10%. And companies no longer want to pay millions a year for mediocre employees. They'd rather fire everyone but the best, and have them become 10 or 100x what they were by wielding AI.This is why you see some people thriving right now and most people are panicking. It's because most people are in the 90% that companies no longer want.The solution is to become one of the top 10% type people that companies still desperately…