[Nextgrid]

When you build a house you don't keep the builders around once the house is built. You occasionally get a maintenance guy to keep things running but in a well-constructed building the maintenance effort is significantly lower than the initial effort to build it.

Why should it be any different for an IT system? Once the system is built, stable and does not require changes (Twitter's feature set hasn't meaningfully changed until recently, ironically post-Musk), it shouldn't require anywhere near the amount of engineers that it needed when it was being developed.

Anyone saying otherwise likely has their salary depend on it, which is a common thing around here thus all the noise that was made around the time the firings were announced.

[dagw]

I'd say it's more like building a hotel than building a house. Sure you might not need the people that built the hotel, and the hotel probably won't fall down if you just have a minimal maintenance staff. However, if you want the hotel to thrive and grow and be profitable long term, you probably want to hire more than just a couple maintenance guys.