A chief AI officer works only if it holds three things: the platform and its controls, the funding gates and risk sign-off. Otherwise it is a demo team.
Tech hiring is barbelling: fierce competition for senior talent and cheap junior capacity, with the middle squeezed out. This is structural, not a hype cycle.
Agents rarely shrink payrolls. They convert doing-work into checking-work, and winning org charts are redesigned around that conversion, not headcount.
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