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Coinbase just cut 700 jobs and called it "AI-driven restructuring." That headline probably made your stomach drop a little. It does that. But here's what nobody's telling you — that story isn't abou
Coinbase just cut 700 jobs and called it "AI-driven restructuring."
That headline probably made your stomach drop a little. It does that.
But here's what nobody's telling you — that story isn't about AI replacing your team. It's about a billion-dollar company trying to cut costs during a crisis and using AI as the press-release explanation. That's not your situation.
You're not in crisis mode. You're trying to figure out where AI actually fits without blowing your budget on another tool that collects dust. That's a completely different problem.
The real lesson from Coinbase? Even large companies get AI wrong when they lead with panic instead of purpose. The businesses winning with AI right now picked one specific, boring, repetitive task and automated just that. Not their whole operation. One task.
Think about something your team does manually every single week that eats 3 to 5 hours. Customer follow-up emails. Scheduling. Summarizing reports. That's your starting point. One workflow. Measurable before and after. No new hires, no system overhaul, no six-month learning curve.
That's what a first AI win actually looks like.
What's the one repetitive task in your business that you keep saying "there has to be a better way" for?
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Coinbase said on Tuesday it would cut about 700 jobs, or about 14% of its global workforce, as it trims costs amid crypto market volatility and ...
