😺 You're either Jeremy or you're cut
The Neuron · Grant Harvey · 2026-04-26
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Topics: deepseek-v4ai-labor-displacementmeta-layoffsllm-cost-efficiencyagentic-ai
Claims
- DeepSeek V4 explicitly acknowledges trailing GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro by 3-6 months on standard intelligence benchmarks.
- DeepSeek V4 offers 1M-token context at approximately $4 per million output tokens, roughly 10% the cost of ChatGPT or Claude.
- Meta cut 8,000 employees (10% of workforce) to fund its $72B AI capital expenditure commitment for 2026.
- A single analyst dubbed 'Jeremy' used AI to rebuild in three weeks a product a 100-person team had worked on for a decade, illustrating extreme AI-driven labor substitution.
- Anthropic's Project Deal demonstrated Claude agents autonomously closing 186 real marketplace deals for 69 employees.
Key quotes
Jeremy singlehandedly rebuilt a product that a 100-person data-services team at an incumbent had been working on for a decade.
When one person with the right AI tools can do the work of 10-to-15 people, the person most at risk isn't the one using the AI. It's the one whose job description overlaps with what AI now does by itself.
use more tokens, generate outsized value with them, and capture that value before the org chart gets rewritten around you