[chunkmonke99]

Isn't that what a well run company does when creating a process? Bureaucracy and process, reduces the penalty of weak domain context and in fact is designed to obviate that need. It "diffuses" the domain knowledge to a set of specifications, documents, and processes. AI may be able to accelerate it, or subsume that bureaucracy. But since when has the limiting factor been "finding someone locally who knows the process?" Once you document a process, the power of computing means you can outsource any of that you want no? Again, AI may subsume, all the back office or bureaucratic office work. Perhaps it will totally restructure the way humans organize labor, run companies, and coordinate. But that system will have to select for a different set of skills than "filling out n forms quickly and accurately." The wage stagnation etc etc. predates AI and might be due to other structural factors.

[kaibee]

> Isn't that what a well run company does

How many of those do you see around?

[echelon]

I bet we're about to see a lot of 10-person $100M+ ARR companies emerge. That's a scale where teams can be tight and excel.

[gizajob]

If you can build that with AI, then 9 people with AI can probably wipe out that company, only to be wiped out by 8 people with AI…and so on.

[pjerem]

Not necessarily. That's the old "I made Twitter in a weekend" joke.

That's not because you can technically replicate a product that your company will be successful. What makes a company successful are sales forces, internal processes and luck. Both are extremely difficult to replicate because sales forces are based on a human network you have to build, internal processes are either organic or kept secret, and luck can only be provoked by staying alive long enough, which means you need money.

[jon_north]

massively underrated comment detected.

[y0eswddl]

when.

people have been saying that since 2022.

when and how. hmm??

show your work.

or is this just more slype being spewed...

[SkiFire13]

I think something around that scale (say maybe 20 employees, but definitely not hundreds) was possible even before LLM got popular, but the people involved needed to be talented and focused. I'm not sure if AI will really change that though.

[automation2026]

In 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19B and they had 55 employees

[BobbyTables2]

Correction: 55 grossly underpaid employees!