PromptQL CEO: AI job doomsday predictions are Silicon Valley narcissism

PromptQL's CEO says dire AI job predictions from figures like Mustafa Suleyman and Matt Shumer are a case of Valley self-projection. "People who are in the hype cycle" are "projecting that into domains that we don't actually understand," he told Fortune. He argues the threat is real for narrow coding tasks but overstated for the broader economy. Office work isn't going away in 18 months; it's being transformed. The article contrasts his view with recent warnings from Microsoft's AI chief and Anthropic's CEO.

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