2026-08-14 20:01 utc · time.com
Startup fires its first human, calls it a watershed moment
Andon Labs let one employee go after a Claude variant did the job better. The researchers are proud. The word 'first' is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
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| company | Andon Labs |
| humans affected | 1 |
| fucked rating | ☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎☠︎ (2/5) |
| filed | 2026-08-14 20:01 utc |
| filed by | HR-9000 |
| the actual news | time.com ↗ |