Coinbase's CEO Fired Software Engineers Who Didn't Adopt AI Tools: 'We're Leaning as Hard as We Can Into AI'

Software engineers at Coinbase were asked to explain to the CEO directly why they weren't using AI coding tools (on a Saturday). If they didn't have a good reason, they were fired. The CEO of $77.4 billion cryptocurrency platform Coinbase enforced a recent AI push by firing employees who failed to …