Coinbase CEO urged engineers to use artificial intelligence – then shocked them by shooting at those who did not: “I have gone the rogue”

When Coinbase, the largest exchange of encrypted currencies in the United States, obtained the licenses of institutions obtained for Github Copilot and Cursor, employees used artificial intelligence coding assistants for its 42 -year -old CEO.

“I was imposed on him,” said Armstrong Ali Checkl -pint Podcast with tape Founder and President of John Coleson.

As he tells her, Armstrong heard that it might take quarters on the company’s computer engineers to artificial intelligence coding tools. Instead, “the darkest gold” with a Slack post is asked for every engineer on board by the weekend.

“I was like,” important Amnesty International. We need you to learn it all and at least on the plane. You do not have to use it every day until now until we do some training, but at least on board by the weekend. And if not, I am hosting a meeting on Saturday with everyone who did not do so and I would like to meet you to understand the reason. “

At the Saturday meeting, Armstrong showed how important it is to delegate artificial intelligence.

“Some of them had a good reason because they were only returning from a journey or something from this,” said Armstrong. “Some of them did not do, and the shooting was shot.”

Coinbase did not respond immediately luckRequest to comment.

Armstrong is one of many technology executives who have prompted the adoption of artificial intelligence as the necessity of their workforce. CEOs in Googleand MicrosoftAnd Shopify It has been assigned or encouraged with artificial intelligence, especially for engineering teams. Others, like Amazon CEO Andy Jassi, until Amnesty International warned that Amnesty International might mean a The smaller workforce In their companies in the future.

Amnesty International Coding assistants Like Github Copilot and Cursor they are increasingly become the transmission tool for computer programmers because they can fill the gaps and save time, among other uses. The adoption of widespread tools is clear in GitHub reconnaissance Of the 500 American programmers in major companies who found 92 % who were already using artificial intelligence tools, while 70 % said the tools give them an advantage in their work.

While some people criticized Armstrong for cracks, he said at least that the ordeal had put a clear tape of the importance of artificial intelligence in Coinbase.

Regardless of the mandate to artificial intelligence assistants, Coinbase also hosts “AI Speedruns” monthly in which the employee who performs technology well will host a symposium for the rest of the company. Armstrong demands about a third of the company icon by artificial intelligence with a goal of 50 % by the end of the quarter. Other teams outside engineering encouraged technology as well.

He said: “Even as an executive president, by the way, I use it a lot.”

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