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AI can do a lot, but it can’t replace human taste and judgment.Coinbase CTO Rob Witoff told Business Insider that those are the traits that make engineering candidates stand out nowadays. As AI takes over routine tasks, Witoff said engineers will increasingly be expected to tackle “much harder strategy decisions.”That means the company wants developers who aren’t “working in a single lane,” he said.”We want people that can step back and really understand why they’re doing something,” Witoff said.What it means to have ‘taste and judgment’In a July blog post on the topic, Coinbase describes taste and judgement as “Knowing…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David Hatcher, the managing partner of Baringa. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been a consultant since the late ’90s. I spent most of my career focused on the energy sector, but these days, AI has become a big topic of conversation.I joined Baringa in 2012 after stints at EY and Accenture because I wanted to work at a much smaller consultancy with a slightly more entrepreneurial flavor. I was elected managing partner in 2026.The role is effectively the same as being CEO. Baringa is fully owned by its partners.…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jack Nguyen, a Deloitte employee in his 40s, living in Virginia. He previously worked for Amazon before being laid off in January. The following has been edited for length and clarity.In January, I learned that I’d been laid off from my engineering role at Amazon. After spending more than seven years at the company across two stints, it was pretty surprising, but also not surprising, at the same time.I’d already been somewhat concerned about my job security, particularly after the company’s big layoffs in 2023. While some of the teams we…

Mark Zuckerberg is often sparing with his words. On Monday, he published over 6,000 of them.Executives from the leading AI companies keep writing long, long manifestos. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is the biggest player in lengthy essay-writing. His “Machines of Loving Grace” — which clocks in at over 13,000 words — has been printed, bound, and given out as merch.Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has taken to posting long essays this year about the AI economy, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman writes blog posts about the future. Maybe the only abstainer is Elon Musk, who seems to prefer shorter posts and…

Job interviews are increasingly happening after most people have gone to bed.Ribbon AI, a voice-AI recruiting platform, told Business Insider that about a quarter of interviews conducted through Ribbon take place between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time, according to data from more than 500 companies using the service. Among Ribbon’s manufacturing customers, that share rises to 35%.Arsham Ghahramani, the CEO of Ribbon, told Alex Hutchings last week on the ThinkData podcast that the pattern may be driven by working parents with little spare time, or by workers in factories or kitchens who struggle to find a quiet place…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Leslie Friday, 48, a marketing and communications professional who found a “bridge job” at a garden center after getting laid off. It has been edited for length and clarity.I know everyone says this, but I really didn’t see it coming. After a decade at the same company, I was laid off. I was in complete shock. I thought I was a key part of the team, was about to start a sabbatical, and, more importantly, my identity was completely intertwined with my job — until it came crashing down.At first, I…

Do you dream of making money as a content creator?Well, it’s about to get harder to qualify for YouTube’s program that pays creators.YouTube announced on Monday that it’s raising the entry requirements for the main tier of its YouTube Partner Program (YPP), the video platform’s advertising revenue-sharing program.”The biggest changes are on what it takes to earn from ads rev-share,” Amjad Hanif, YouTube’s VP of creator product, said in a video about the changes.The updates will particularly affect Shorts creators, who publish short-form content to YouTube.Before you panic: “If you are in YPP today, you stay in YPP,” Hanif said.Here…

If you’re thinking of starting a business, there’s no reason to wait.When Business Insider asked LinkedIn users which decade of life is the best time to start a business, the 30s came out on top. Ronnen Harary says that tracks with the average age of entrepreneurs in the US — but his advice is to start sooner.The Canadian entrepreneur who cofounded global children’s entertainment company Spin Master recommends starting a business in your 20s, he said in a live Q&A with Business Insider’s Sarah Needleman. The company generated over $2 billion in revenue last year. It owns brands including Paw…

TikTok is summoning its workers back to their desks full time.TikTok said that, starting in September, it will require most US employees to return to the office five days a week, three staffers told Business Insider.The in-office mandate will shake up schedules for some hybrid workers who are currently allowed to work from home at least one day a week. Other teams already have five-day RTO. For example, members of TikTok’s e-commerce division, TikTok Shop, have been coming in every day for more than a year.The company’s US RTO plans have been in the works for months. In December, TikTok…

Goodbye, Arena Group. Hello, Paradium.AI.The media company that owns publications including TheStreet, Parade, and Men’s Journal informed employees in a Monday memo obtained by Business Insider that it was changing its name as part of its evolution into a “publicly traded AI company.”The memo, titled “Today we go ‘All In’: Introducing Paradium.AI,” was sent ahead of a planned announcement during its Q2 earnings after market close on Monday, the CEO wrote.”This is more than a name change; it is a commitment to our future as a tech-centric leader in media, data, and commerce,” CEO Paul Edmondson wrote in the memo,…