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AI Engineer Warns Companies Will Be Replaced by AI-Native Competitors

Masters of Scale · Pioneers of AI: How fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out. · May 23, 2026
AI Engineer Warns Companies Will Be Replaced by AI-Native Competitors
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Pioneers of AI: How fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out.
"If you don't become AI-native, anyone on your team with high potential is not likely to stick around long-term. If they do stick around, it might be because they're like, 'Oh, I automated my job and no one knows.' I mean, for a lot of people, they may go build your competitor and beat you because they're able to go deeper and further and faster because of these tools."
AI engineer Parth Patel, who works with Reid Hoffman's office, warned that non-AI-native companies face existential risk from new AI-native competitors that can move faster and more efficiently. He emphasized that high-potential employees are likely to leave companies that don't adopt AI tools, and may even use AI to automate their own jobs secretly or build competing businesses.
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