Zeb Evans stood before his remaining staff at ClickUp and announced that the era of the human employee is ending. The CEO of the $4 billion software startup confirmed he laid off 22% of his workforce on May 22 to make room for 3,000 internal AI agents. This creates a 3:1 ratio of robots to humans, a mechanical replacement level no other major tech firm has dared to admit. Evans posted on X that he plans to pay million-dollar salaries to any surviving workers who can automate their own roles out of existence. According to internal memos, if you create outsized impact using AI, you will be paid outside of traditional bands. The purge is spreading. Meta shifted 7,000 engineers into AI tooling this month, closing thousands of open roles to focus on agentic redesign. Wix is liquidating 1,000 jobs—20% of its global staff—citing internal AI advancements as the primary driver for the cuts. Box founder Aaron Levie described the trend as AI psychosis, where executives who do not understand what workers actually do decide they can be replaced by a prompt. While the professional class faces liquidation, the transition is being framed as freedom for the few. Carol Merlo, a 73-year-old product manager, told reporters she used Claude to build a postcard business in four hours. Her son, Kevin Masterson, calls it vibe coding. The reality for the 290 people fired at ClickUp is less aesthetic. They are the first wave of a Cognitive Enclosure that treats human expertise as a legacy cost to be purged. Intuit followed suit by liquidating 3,000 jobs to fund its own pivot toward autonomous software agents. The digital perimeter is being walled off by companies that no longer need the humans who built them.