It was lyrics for the ages. The Fugees, an American hip hop group in the early 1990s, recorded the masterpiece which connected lovers around the world. The beginnings of the lines were like pains, but the whole meaning of the stanza is a breeze.
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
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Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Across campuses, pubs and joints, the story was the same: someone was killing someone, softly. Of course, if someone is killing someone, even softly, it was a trajectory of doom. But waiting a little longer to finish the line, the dimples would broaden, and the eyes would roll. It was not really a death path, but an ephemeral passion of humanity where words weaken in ecstasy.
Take it all together, it is a breeze: “a light gentle wind” which is harmless but from afar may be mistaken to be painful. AI is having a breeze. Yes, the breeze is blowing and Intuit, an American SaaS company known for tax software, just presented what is ahead: “Intuit is laying off about 1,800 workers, or 10% of its workforce, in a strategic shift toward artificial intelligence. The maker of TurboTax will then hire 1,800 new employees” – LinkedIn News.
What a wonderful world: you fire 1,800 people and you hire 1,800 immediately. That song which one Jambite in my room in FUTO, Emeka, nicknamed Tupac, would sing day and night, ended with a line “That’s why we gotta be prepared …” People, prepare because AI is here, and careers will be distorted at scale.
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