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Foong Chee Mun (CEO, YTL AI Labs / CPO, Ryt Bank) says the "AI is coming for engineers" take is too simplistic — and his own headcount numbers are the receipts

TL;DR: A CEO looked straight at the "AI is coming for engineers" panic and called it too simple. He didn't say why — not until his own hiring numbers came up. Foong Chee Mun runs AI Labs at YTL and product at Ryt Bank, and when someone hands him the "engineers will just get replaced" line, he doesn…

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  1. 2026-09-25 12:42 · r/artificial
    Foong Chee Mun (CEO, YTL AI Labs / CPO, Ryt Bank) says the "AI is coming for engineers" take is too simplistic — and his own headcount numbers are the receipts

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