A retired New Zealand technologist who blogs as 'Boz' has a simple message for workers being made redundant by AI: go after your former employer's clients.
The post, published Thursday on rodyne.com, was prompted by his son-in-law losing his job at a large business consultancy. Boz sees it as part of something bigger — he expects initial 10% cuts in professional services to climb to 30% or more — and frames it as the early stages of the technological singularity rather than an ordinary economic correction.
His argument is competitive in the most direct sense. The same AI tools driving corporate layoffs also allow a single person to replicate what a consultancy delivers, faster and cheaper, without shareholders or quarterly earnings calls to answer to. Large firms, he writes, are "super-tankers trying to make a turn." His practical advice: reach out to your employer's customers before you receive your redundancy notice.
Boz has spent recent months writing about AI's economic implications — covering coding tools, what he calls the "utopian AI problem," and how to prepare for an AI-reshaped economy. He's candid that he is too far removed from corporate networks to execute the strategy himself. The post cites no data and makes no pretence of being a formal analysis. It is a retired technologist's read on a moment he believes is genuinely unprecedented.
What makes the piece worth flagging isn't the argument, which others in the agent space have made at length in more polished venues. It's where it's showing up. The idea that AI doesn't just automate jobs but hands displaced workers a weapon to use against the organisations that cut them has travelled from conference panels and venture blogs into a personal site in New Zealand. Whether solo operators can realistically execute this at any scale remains to be seen. But the conversation has clearly spread.