The American “Business Insider” website stated that “In an article titled ‘Something Big Is Happening,’ Matt Schumer, CEO of Hyperright, said that artificial intelligence can now do all of his technical work, and he believes that anyone’s job could be next. Schumer wrote on the X platform: I am writing this for the people in my life… my family, my friends, the people I care about who keep asking me, ‘What’s the story with artificial intelligence?’” “And they get an answer that does not reflect what is really happening.” Schumer explained that the reason technology workers are “sounding the alarm” is because they have already experienced what will happen to everyone, and wrote: “We are not predicting, but rather telling you what has already happened in our jobs, and warning you that you are next.”
According to the site, “Schumer said many people outside the technology field dismissed AI years ago after a sloppy experience with an early version of ChatGPT. “The models available today are unrecognizable from what they were just six months ago,” he wrote. The debate that has been going on for more than a year over whether artificial intelligence is “really getting better” or “reaching a dead end” is over. Schumer noted that “this is not the time to panic” and that “the best thing to do is to go deeper into understanding artificial intelligence.” This could be the most important year of your career.” He added, “I’m not saying this to worry you, but because there is a window of opportunity now that most people in most companies are ignoring this matter. “The person who walks into a meeting and says, ‘I used AI to do this analysis in one hour instead of three days,’ will be the most valuable person in the meeting.”
According to the site, “Schumer is not the only one sounding the alarm.” Although views vary among technology leaders, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, still believes that artificial intelligence may eliminate up to half of white-collar and entry-level jobs within the next five years. Elon Musk, CEO of Schumer’s article resonated greatly, especially among those working in the technology field, and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, commented, saying: “Great article. I strongly agree.” As David Haber, general partner at A16z, wrote: “Great advice on how to advance your career at any large company right now.”
The website stated, “Although the reactions to the post were very positive, some X users pointed out the limitations that still exist in many current artificial intelligence products, such as hallucinations and general inaccuracy.” Schumer stressed that this moment reminds him of February 2020, when news of the spread of the “Corona” epidemic led to global turmoil unprecedented in the modern era, the repercussions of which are still reverberating today. “The potential for what artificial intelligence will change is much greater than Corona,” he added. For Schumer, this realization is evident with the two recent competing releases: Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 model and OpenAI’s GPT-5.3 Codex model. Both models are primarily geared toward software engineering, and OpenAI noted in the release notes that the GPT-5.3 Codex “is our first model that was instrumental in inventing itself.”
The website noted that “Schumer wrote about his experience with OpenAI’s latest Codex model: “It wasn’t just executing my instructions, it was making smart decisions.” “He had something that felt, for the first time, like wisdom, like taste, that vague sense of knowing the right decision that people always said AI would never have.” Schumer emphasized that artificial intelligence is now so smart that it can tell an agent what he wants and “step away from his computer for four hours, and come back and find the work done. It was done well.” In a post on LinkedIn, Schumer commented on his widely circulated post and wrote: “Every time someone asks me about the latest developments in the field of artificial intelligence, I give them the safe answer, because the real answer seems illogical. I’ve had enough of that.”
