Shadowing Practice: AI layoffs are here. This is how you keep your job. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So Coinbase laid off a bunch of people last week.
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And the CEO sent out this letter.
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And by letter, I mean tweet.
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A really beautifully written tweet explaining that the layoffs were not because of mismanagement.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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Brian, see, was a victim.
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We're all victims.
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The AI was just too damn productive.
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And I mean, he tried.
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He got on his knees and he begged the GPUs to slow down.
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It's like, please think about the families.
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But it was no use.
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The productivity gains were already realized.
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Now, this isn't an economics video.
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This is a survival video.
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The question is, what do you do to survive?
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You become the problem.
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You are going to become the most insufferable, the most LinkedIn-sounding motherfucker, the most aggressively pro-AI person in your entire company.
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Starting tomorrow.
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I'm serious.
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I want you to go to ChatGPT, and I want you to ask it for a list of 100 AI buzzwords.
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And I want you to print them out and tape them to your bathroom mirror.
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And every morning while you brush your teeth, I want you to practice them.
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Rel floop.
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Rel floop.
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Door cache.
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store, cash, agentic, orchestration, multi-agent, neocloud.
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By the time you walk out of the door, you should have a low-grade fever.
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You should be slightly nauseous.
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This is good.
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This is a positive symptom.
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Then at 9 a.m.
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sharp, you're going to send an email to your entire organization.
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Include members of the board as well.
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The email subject is going to be some thoughts on where we're headed.
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The body of the email will be, hey team, I've been giving this a lot of thoughts, And I think it's time we became an AI first company I have some experience in this space and I'm happy to be the Sherpa on this journey
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Reach out if you'd like to set up some time Okay, send it just send it and at this point if you can make this email leak this will put you in the major leagues Well, that's a strategy for another video now.
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You're gonna host weekly workshops Okay, you'll call them AI office hours every Friday at 3 p.m.
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in conference room B You're gonna print flyers that says got AI questions.
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I've got AI answers Nobody else in the company will be doing this and certainly no one else will have flyers.
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But here's the trick, okay?
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The workshops are not for them.
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They're for you.
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They are reconnaissance.
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You are going to find out in real time exactly how little anybody at this company actually understands AI and you're going to exploit this gap to figure out exactly what content to serve your audience.
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Your audience being the AI simpletons on your team.
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Now, if your CEO has never heard the phrase Ralph Loop, oh man.
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You are less than 30 days away from your next promotion.
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I'm not even exaggerating.
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Walk into his office, close the door and say, hey chief, been experimenting with something.
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It's called Ralph Loops.
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And I think it could change literally everything.
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And he's going to say, what's a Ralph Loop?
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And you will say, give me $18,000 worth of API credits and I'll show you.
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Now you won't actually do anything because you can't do anything because nobody can because nobody knows what they're doing.
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But by the time he figures that out, you'll have a new title and an equity bump.
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What you want to be doing is automating.
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Talk about automation constantly.
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Nothing arouses the slumbering capitalists than the mention of automation.
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Drop names too, bro.
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Like, talk about specific team members you can automate out of existence.
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Be like, yo,
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i automated gary bro tag gary in the message tag him in slack in a very public channel be like yo i just automated at gary his function has been
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ralph looped and tag your ceo in the same message you think you're getting laid off after that bro like are you out of your mind this is how you survive the storm it does not matter who is right and it does not matter who is wrong a storm is neither right nor wrong.
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Like, dude, if you're an AI contrarian at your company right now, like, what are you doing?
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Resign, dude.
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Resign voluntarily, man.
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This is highly disgraceful.
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The only place you should be talking about AI realism is here with me or with your dog.
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Do not let anyone, not even your own wife, hear you be negative or balanced about AI.
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Are you kidding me, dude?
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There's only one way to make money off being an AI realist, and I've already cornered the market and I'm barely getting by, man.
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The most important thing, the absolute most important thing is that you are no longer going to do any work.
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Okay.
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You're not going to write any code.
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You're not even going to type.
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You're going to dictate.
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You're going to use a voice tool.
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You're going to speak to Claude.
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You're going to speak to your team on Slack.
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You're going to speak in meetings and workshops.
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And at no point are your fingers ever going to touch a keyboard because we We have transcended labor, my friend.
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We have ascended.
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Engineering is no longer a craft.
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Engineering is a metaphysical practice now.
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We do not write code.
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We commune with code.
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We cleanse the repo of bad energy.
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We are philosophers of the code base.
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And at this point, if you have a black turtleneck, put it on, okay?
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If you don't, get one.
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Get two.
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Have a backup turtleneck.
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Steve Jobs did not have a backup.
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That was his mistake.
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Now, I want to address the people in the comments who are about to type, hey, man, this is super messed up.
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This is cynical, and it's bad advice.
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I would never do this.
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And I want you to listen to me, okay?
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This little Gandhi stance you're taking will not pay off.
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The CEO of your company is currently taking the Coinbase memo, and he's asking ChatGPT 5.2 to draft one for his own company.
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He needs the views, man.
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He needs an invitation to the All In Summit, okay?
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He needs Chamath to mention him on the pod.
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He's in his office studying Brian's tweet.
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He is whispering, we have made the difficult decision, we have made the difficult decision, out loud, just to feel it in his mouth.
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And you taking a stance against AI will not change his mind.
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It will not change the trajectory of AI.
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It will not make a farts width of difference.
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You want to take a stance, go be vegan, man.
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Go open an account on threads.
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But at work, in this climate, being a realist will get you canned, bro.
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You have one obligation, and that is to make sure there is a roof on top of your family's heads, and food on the table.
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Stop being such a dick, dude, and provide for your family.
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And whenever it gets to be too much, come back here, okay?
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Because between you and me, you and I know what's actually true.
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And it's that AI is a calculator.
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It's not the singularity.
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It's a damn tool.
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Reasonable people know this.
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And now you know why everyone around you is pretending that AI is the second coming of consciousness.
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It's because they're getting promoted.
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They're keeping their jobs, and you're not.
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Put on your turtleneck, and I'll see you on the other side.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “AI layoffs are here. This is how you keep your job”. Deze video bevat 124 zinnen en 1274 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:10. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 207 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| automate werkwoord | /ˈɔ.təˌmeɪt/ | automatiseren |
| turtleneck zelfstandig naamwoord | rolkraag, col | |
| stance zelfstandig naamwoord | /stæns/ | houding |
| realist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹɪəlɪst/ | realist |
| slack bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /slæk/ | slap |
| litter zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɪt.ɚ/ | strooisel |
| automation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | automatisering |
| resign werkwoord | /ɹɪˈzaɪn/ | ontslag nemen |
| arouse werkwoord | /əˈɹaʊz/ | opwekken |
| ascend werkwoord | /əˈsɛnd/ | stijgen, opgaan |
| cleanse werkwoord | /klɛnz/ | reinigen, schoonmaken |
| commune zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑmjuːn/ | gemeente |
| exaggerate werkwoord | /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/ | overdrijven |
| insufferable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/ | bij de beesten af, bij de konijnen af |
| metaphysical bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪkəl/ | metafysisch |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| lay off werkwoord | ontslaan, de zak geven | |
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen | |
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen | |
| mess up werkwoord | verrommelen, in de war brengen | |
| pay off werkwoord | aflossen | |
| set up werkwoord | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | bereiden, voorbereiden |
| slow down werkwoord | afremmen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- The question is, what do you do to survive?
- Are you kidding me, dude?
- You're not going to write any code.
- You're not even going to type.
- You're going to use a voice tool.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 39 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, I'm, they're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, nauseous /ˈnɔʃəs/, cache /kæʃ/, obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, contrarian /kənˈtɹɛ.ɹi.ən/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, insufferable /ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/, metaphysical /ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪkəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: arouse /əˈɹaʊz/, ascend /əˈsɛnd/, cleanse /klɛnz/, transcend /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛnd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: stance /stæns/, slack /slæk/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, mismanagement /ˌmɪsˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/, singularity /ˌsɪŋɡjəˈlæɹətɪ/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: disgraceful [dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ], exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, singularity /ˌsɪŋɡjəˈlæɹətɪ/, vegan /ˈviːɡən/, obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als automate, turtleneck, stance.
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