What AI Did to Headcount: Dan Shipper's After Automation Report

Dan Shipper's "After Automation" report gives us one of the clearest first-person accounts yet of what AI actually does to a small company's headcount and skill mix. Meanwhile, Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic is the talent signal of the year, Cursor keeps shipping at a pace that's hard to keep up with, and OpenAI's Virgin Atlantic case study shows what "AI-accelerated shipping" looks like with real stakes.