[MyOutfitIsVague]

My company has had a backlog thousands of developer-hours long for years. Maybe eventually somebody will get fired because we're not needed, but the LLM would have to actually 10x our productivity for us to get through the backlog in a year.

[ripped_britches]

That backlog almost certainly is just stuff you care about and not related to revenue

Or someone would have been added to headcount to work on it

[sarchertech]

No one knows what will bring in revenue. It’s all just a guess and at most bigcos there are far more people who can create tickets than there are people who can close them.

Every PM I’ve ever worked with had 10x more things they wanted to add than they had devs to add them.

[codr7]

That's insane.

You would likely lose absolutely nothing by throwing away most of it, and gain a lot.

[MyOutfitIsVague]

You're almost certainly right.