When the optimisers become the optimised

Unlike previous waves of displacement, when those losing jobs were on the margins of the tech economy, the current wave is impacting the very engineers who wrote the code and optimised the workflows. They built the mechanism. The mechanism is now consuming them.

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When the optimisers become the optimised

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