The Workforce Bifurcation, and What Perplexity's Failures Tell Us
AI PM Research
Sunday, July 12, 2026
The Workforce Bifurcation, and What Perplexity's Failures Tell Us
The annual AI sentiment survey drops and the headline is a split: tech workers who have figured out AI are thriving, everyone else is burning out. Meanwhile, Ben Tossell's critique of Perplexity is a useful case study in what happens when AI product demos don't survive contact with real users.
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