The era of human utility is ending. Coinbase and Cloudflare are leading the charge into a graveyard of lost livelihoods. They call it optimization. It is actually just the systematic removal of people.

The math is simple. They replace expensive workers with black box code. The companies claim this will drive efficiency. The truth is they are just testing how much they can gut before the structure collapses.

The results are not even guaranteed. These AI pivots might fail to deliver any real returns. That does not matter to the people already out on the street. The damage is permanent.

• The loss of human agency.
• The replacement of talent with unproven algorithms.
• The destruction of stability for the sake of a spreadsheet.
• The slow death of the professional class.