Block just confirmed 4,000 layoffs but I'm hearing the real number is closer to 4,800 when you count contractors and the "voluntary separation" packages pushed through yesterday Sources inside are saying Jack Dorsey walked into the all-hands with a 47-slide deck titled "Building Tomorrow's Block" Slide 23 showed current org chart: 10,200 people. Slide 24 showed target org: 5,900 people by July The brutal part: they've been screen recording every engineering session for 6 months. Called it "knowledge capture for AI training" Senior engineers thought they were helping build internal tools. They were actually training their replacements I'm told the offshore team in Bangalore already has access to the entire codebase documentation, decision trees, and architectural reasoning - all extracted from those recordings One L7 architect realized yesterday that his "AI pair programming" sessions were being fed directly into training data for automated code generation The team that built their payment processing infrastructure? All gone. Replaced by 3 contractors with Claude Sonnet and the complete prompt library of the guy they just walked out Word is they're planning to cut another 2,000 in Q2 once the AI agents can handle customer support escalations But sure, keep telling people that AI will "augment" their jobs instead of erasing them The knowledge extraction is complete