Ramp’s AI Czar Threatens Firing Anyone Using ChatGPT “Only Sometimes”
KEY POINTS
- •Geoff Charles, Ramp's product chief, said employees not using AI tools like Claude Code will likely be fired.
- •Ramp, valued at $32 billion after a $300 million funding round in November, aims for 80% AI-driven code by March.
- •Other tech companies like Atlassian and Google are also reshaping workforces around AI use, impacting job security.
Geoff Charles, Ramp’s product chief at a fintech startup now worth $32 billion thanks to a $300 million funding binge led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and pals, decreed that if you’re 'only sometimes using ChatGPT'—welcome to Level Zero, aka the company’s employee purgatory. Despite 50% of their code origin story being AI-powered, with a heroic march to 80% by March, poor souls who fail to vibe code or properly worship Claude Code are basically speed-dialed for HR exit stage left. Meanwhile, product managers are told to choose between building AI wonders or pivot to vaguely strategizing about AI, like a futuristic Choose Your Own Adventure not written by humans. Even Atlassian and Block are turning layoffs into 'AI optimization' story hours, and Google’s low-tech peasants feel the heat from AI usage reviews. Summary: if you don’t AI like it’s oxygen, Geoff’s terms say you’re not staying in the fintech jungle.
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(1 of 3)Apparently, using ChatGPT 'sometimes' is corporate code for 'pack your desk lamp, you’re fired.' Ramp’s new workplace motto: vibe code or vanish into startup ghost town.
At Ramp, the only crime worse than not coding is politely using ChatGPT once in a blue moon. Welcome to AI fascism, population: you.
When your product chief treats AI like a cult and ChatGPT ‘sometimes users’ like sinners, you know corporate has officially entered the Matrix reboot.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 3/16/2026 | Author: Lee Chong Ming
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