Overview

• Brian Armstrong told a podcast he mandated a one-week onboarding to company AI assistants and held a Saturday meeting for engineers who had not complied.
• Coinbase had rolled out enterprise licenses for GitHub Copilot and Cursor before issuing the mandate to its engineering teams.
• Armstrong said some employees had valid delays such as vacations, while others without a good reason were dismissed for noncompliance.
• The company has expanded training with monthly sessions and internal “AI speedrun” share-outs to spread effective practices.
• Armstrong and host John Collison noted uncertainty about running an AI-authored codebase, and Coinbase has not disclosed how many employees were fired.