Klarna CEO means that employees examine his mood coding projects generated by AI

Perhaps the only thing worse than having a boss who thinks that your work can be replaced by artificial intelligence is to have a boss who thinks he can do your job for you with AI and want to show you his work. Unfortunately, according to your role in the company, Klarna’s CEO, Sebastian, Siemiatkowski, is guilty of the two.

Futurism recently highlighted the unhappy insistence of the CEO on the features of the Ambient Coding Prototype with AI, then passing its real professional engineers and trying to implement it.

Siemiatkowski recently appeared on the Sourcery podcast, where he revealed his new cospissal hobby as an engineer, using AI tools to write code, then bring these ideas to the offices of the people he pays to do this work. In the episode, the CEO admits that he has never been coded before, but he started using the code editor cursor fueled by AI to develop prototypes for new features, which, according to him, takes about 20 minutes to participate before taking them to his engineering team.

“Rather than disturbing my poor engineers and products with what is half of good ideas and half of bad ideas, now I test it myself. I come to say:” Listen, I did this job, that’s how it works, what do you think, could we do this? “” He said.

For the credit of Siemiatkowski, he has at least a little self -awareness on the situation. He joked by saying that he occasionally falls in love with the sycophance of the AI ​​who tells him that all his ideas are great, and he admitted that playing with code in Cursor made him think of projects in a new way and forces him to articulate his ideas more clearly during communication with his team. But does that prevent his engineers from letting a deep sigh when they see Siemiatkowski coming, ready to make them look at a functionality that he does not really understand but says that works? Difficult to say.

The coding habit of the CEO’s atmosphere certainly does not suggest that he learned a lot from his first attempt to go all-in on AI. Last year, Siemiatkowski reduced his workforce almost in two, going from a workforce of 3,800 to 2000 years, going to AI alternatives, in particular by replacing large pieces of his customer support team with AI agents – only to hire humans after discovering that they were not as replaceable as he thought.

There could be a similar effect of its interest in the code, since the coding epidemic for vibration has created opportunities for humans, even if others are replaced. NBC and 404 Media recently published stories about the new economy of workers and freelancers brought to correct the damage made by the code generated by the AI. A survey of the Cloud Computing company quickly revealed that 95% of the developers interviewed spend more time repairing the code generated by the AI, some saying that it takes more time to correct the errors they record by initially generating the code with AI tools. The METR research firm also recently reported that using AI tools makes the developers slower to perform tasks.

But the CEO feels smarter, and isn’t that what really matters?