Axios CTO Shrinks Tech Team By Half, Doubles Output, Still Gets Monday Blues
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- â˘Axios CTO Dan Cox shared that their tech team has shrunk from 90 people two years ago to 43 today to adapt to AI-driven changes.
- â˘One top engineer cut coding tasks from 3 weeks to 37 minutes using AI âagent teamsâ, doubling output twice in recent months.
- â˘Axios CEO Jim VandeHei acknowledged the impact on jobs and promised transparency while highlighting benefits for local news hiring.
Dan Cox, who somehow became Axios' CTO in April 2025 after stints at Meta, Yahoo, and Amazon, announced the tech team's magic trick: shrinking staff from 90 people two years ago to 43 now, yet output has doubled not once but twice since January 2026. An ace engineer cut a coding marathon from three weeks in 2025 to merely 37 minutes using AI 'agent teams'âpossibly holographic caffeine dispensers included. Meanwhile, Axios warns of the upcoming software apocalypse with contracts sneaking from yearly to a wishful six-month arrangement and bottlenecks moving from coding to human brain capacity. According to CEO Jim VandeHei, itâs all totally transparentâin case someone didnât notice the gigantic layoffs disguised as 'new environment agility'.
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Cutting 20 engineers while dodging job loss blame with AI magic is just corporate HRâs version of Quantum Physicsânobody really understands but everyone flinches.
When your AI tools finish months of work in minutes but humans still need 12 coffee breaks, guess whatâs dying first in the office ecosystem?
Axios just found a way to make engineers obsolete and still claim theyâre âboosting humanity.â Meanwhile, those 37 minutes of coding have caused several existential crises.
Source: Axios | Published: 2/15/2026 | Author: Dan Cox
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