Podcast
AI Replaced Me
Hosted by Koby Ofek · EN
Is AI coming for your job, or creating your next opportunity? "AI Replaced Me" with Koby Ofek delivers the real story. Each week, we unravel AI's impact on the workforce with sharp insights, compelling narratives, and a touch of irreverence. You'll love it if you're curious about the future of work, enjoy thought-provoking deep dives, and want practical strategies to not just survive, but thrive in the age of AI. Get your weekly dose of clarity and wit on how AI is changing everything.
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p. 27 – One Million Laid Off (and Counting)
Nov 800:28:08Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Koby Ofek discusses the staggering milestone the job market crossed this week: over one million layoffs in 2025—many directly linked to AI integration. We unpack the Challenger report's bombshell data, Adecco’s cautious optimism, and what Amazon and Walmart’s latest workforce strategies reveal about the future of corporate hiring. Koby also breaks down a new bipartisan bill that could force companies to publicly report how many jobs AI is really killing, and highlights the UK’s national push to upskill 7.5 million workers before automation leaves them behind.From white-collar jobs vanishing at Amazon, to law firms giving associates one day a week to learn AI tools, to policymakers scrambling to demand transparency—this week delivered a jarring but revealing snapshot of what the AI revolution actually looks like at work. Buckle up for sharp insights, nuanced takeaways, and a few reasons to stay adaptive.🚨 Plus: Don’t miss the “Future Forward Flashes” segment where we touch on the AI hiring freeze at YouTube, Nestlé’s automation cuts, and a finance sector quietly automating compliance roles.📕 Koby’s book Keep Your Day Job: How to AI-Proof Your Career is available on Amazon and wherever people get their books.
Transcribe →Ep. 26 - The Quiet Reorg
Nov 100:25:49Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Koby Ofek discusses how a week of headlines turned into a blueprint for the future of white collar work. He unpacks Amazon’s corporate layoffs as a watershed moment for agent assisted operations, where routine drafting and reconciliation shift to systems and human judgment moves upstream. The conversation explores what this means for manager to IC ratios, the missing rung for early career talent, and the practical ways teams can rebuild apprenticeships around exception handling, evaluation, and ownership of guardrails.
Transcribe →Ep. 25 - Your browser is now an employee
Oct 2500:27:57Tap to summarizehis week, Koby Ofek explores OpenAI Atlas, the web browser with ChatGPT built in, and what it means when your tabs start doing the clicking for you. Atlas can summarize pages, fill forms, and run multi step errands that stretch from research to checkout. We also look at ChatGPT company knowledge, the feature that turns messy internal wikis, Slack threads, and buried decks into answers with citations, and we unpack Project Mercury, OpenAI effort to learn the grunt work of junior bankers so machines can build the models that once built careers.From the shop floor to the executive suite, the question is not if jobs change, it is where the glue work goes. Koby charts the near term shift, browsers that handle metawork, copilots that collapse retrieval, and analysts who become editors of machine output. Expect candid guidance for managers on agent policies and oversight rituals, plus practical playbooks for individual contributors who want to trade busywork for judgment.Future Forward Flashes include ad making that costs half and ships twice as fast, warehouse automation targets with real headcount implications, European regulators sharpening their teeth, and a hardware hint that tomorrow compute may already be on your desk. Subscribe and share with a colleague who still treats the browser like a passive rectangle.
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