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This Week in Startups · 2025-07-14 · 61 min · 11,531 words

Blitzhiring and the Complicated Case of Windsurf, OpenAI and Google | E2151

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There are drivers Safety drivers in Waymo's, in Zooks, in Volkswagens, in Teslas right now. Those safety drivers are there. To solve the last ten percent of the problems so that all drivers lose their jobs. The same thing is happening. with developers right now. When developers are using a product like Cursor.

They're training cursor how to take their job. It's literally like What happened in factories Or in farms or other things where the people who had become the middle class are teaching the people who are gonna replace them and they complain about it. This is now happening with

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