Last week, a post written by tech entrepreneur and investor Matt Shumer went viral on social media. Titled, Something Big Is Happening, it was a rundown of all the ways artificial intelligence would, in short order, decimate professional jobs. Tools like Claude Code and Claude Cowork from Anthropic PBC would displace the work of lawyers and wealth managers, he wrote. To get ready, we all needed to practice using AI for an hour a day to upskill ourselves and keep ahead of the tsunami.

The post ripped through the Internet and has been seen more than 80 million times on X. In the words of the young and very online, people are shook. Shumer’s post has struck a nerve in the middle of huge selloffs of finance and software companies whose products seem ripe for replacement.

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