The founder who built AI companions is now warning you that the jobs protests are coming

Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and new AI venture Wabi, told Platformer's Casey Newton that the fear of AI-driven job losses is 'super justified' and she's stopped hiring junior engineers entirely. Her warning is harder to dismiss than most: she's an AI optimist who has already changed her own hiring practices, calling junior hires 'completely unsustainable' as AI gives each employee up to 1,000x leverage.