Coinbase CEO Fired Engineers Who Refused to Use AI Coding Assistants

It's hard to find programmers these days who aren't using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits.

But those who refused to try the tools when Coinbase bought enterprise licenses for GitHub Copilot and Cursor got promptly fired.

After getting licenses to cover every engineer, some at the cryptocurrency exchange warned Armstrong that adoption would be slow, predicting it would take months to get even half the engineers using AI.