Tech layoffs are happening while AI startups hire frantically. The speakers argue soft skills are scarce and valuable: communication and collaboration matter as much as coding when AI tools handle technical work.
Never been a worse time to be in big tech because they're having massive layoffs right now because they are having additional investment into this CapEx. Never been a better time to be on a fast-growing AI startup that is deploying people into enterprises because there's an insatiable demand and there's not going to stop for several years. And so people that the hybrid of soft skills and technical, which you can self-learn easier than you ever have been able to, can provide tremendous value.
When I look around the AI community, the soft skills are hard, are lacking everywhere, and the hard skills have been the critical part. But now with AI as a side kick. The soft skills actually seem like they're on this kind of a curve, so it feels like there's real opportunity in there if you have very, very good soft skills to just find the right company to join.
If you can hook up with one of these companies, they're at max output and they're growing. They're all growing, so they're all probably hiring.