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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.