Why AI won't take your job: a software CEO's counter-argument

For many people, the fear that AI will take their job is no longer just anxiety - it is showing up in the numbers. In March alone, tech companies announced nearly 46,000 layoffs, the worst single month in over a year, with a growing number of executives pointing to AI as a factor. And the industry has not exactly been reassuring: tech CEOs themselves have been among the loudest voices warning that job losses are coming.

Box's CEO thinks they are wrong. In a recent interview with a tech journalist, he pushed back hard on what he calls the "SaaS apocalypse" theory - the idea that AI agents will simply replace the software businesses rely on, along with the people who use it.

His take: AI will actually increase the value of software, not eliminate it. Yes, AI will handle the routine, repetitive work. But there is always a "last mile" that requires human judgment - your industry knowledge, your client relationships, your sense of context and risk.

In other news, Instagram has added "Instants," a tool for sending disappearing photo dumps to friends. Meta describes it as a new way to share in-the-moment photos with Close Friends or mutual followers in one tap: photos disappear after being viewed, cannot be viewed after 24 hours, and cannot be edited before sharing - the pitch is authenticity. It is clearly another push for younger demographics.

The timing is intriguing, though: the new photo-sharing feature arrived just days after Instagram got rid of its optional end-to-end DM encryption. For users weighing privacy against convenience, that sequence is worth noticing.