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They're laying off the people who can't produce a minimum of 2x with AI, and keeping the maximalists with no life outside of work barely keeping up with the 100
by bantunes 4mo ago
They're laying off the people who can't produce a minimum of 2x with AI, and keeping the maximalists with no life outside of work barely keeping up with the 100k LOC a week they're shipping to prod.
Suits have an idea of what the New Model Coder should be, and it's not people who don't burn through 100,000,000 tokens a week.
- kevmo314 4mo agoThat makes no sense. If that were really true then they could’ve saved a bundle and did that same thing years ago before AI.
- alex_sf 4mo agoI mean, they do (and did). If you aren't shipping, you'll be out eventually.
- bantunes 4mo agoThe promise of AI gains with fewer people is what's triggering this - before, you needed ~1 coder to do ~1 unit of work. Suits now think you only need 1 coder to do X units of work because LLMs. So no, they couldn't do the same thing years ago.
- bamboozled 4mo agoThey aren’t, go find the comments of people who worked at the company.