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by bantunes 40 days 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.
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kevmo314 40 days ago
That makes no sense. If that were really true then they could’ve saved a bundle and did that same thing years ago before AI.
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bantunes 39 days ago
The 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.

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alex_sf 40 days ago
I mean, they do (and did). If you aren't shipping, you'll be out eventually.
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bamboozled 39 days ago
They aren’t, go find the comments of people who worked at the company.
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