Contrarian Take Trending: Interest Rate Hikes — Not AI — Are Killing Tech Jobs, Analysis Argues

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A governance.fyi analysis trending on Hacker News (32 points) argues Marc Andreessen is correct that AI isn't the primary driver of tech job losses — the Fed's interest rate tightening cycle is. The piece contends AI provides convenient narrative cover for economic damage caused by monetary policy, pushing back against the dominant displacement thesis that drove recent proposals from Senator Warner and Anthropic's economic impact report. Worth watching as a counter-narrative to the labor disruption consensus.