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Sorry: is there any evidence for the proposition that staffing was excessive, or that it was ZIRP that led to excessive staffing? The idea is plausible, but was it actual?

Second, is there any evidence for more or less gatekeeping?

Or evidence that there were relatively more "pure-engineering" projects? (Though one would expect that for the new technologies and markets. The green fields migrated from scale to data science and AI.)

Finally, wouldn't more gatekeeping be required when AI reduces the cost of making concrete tech proposals?

This seems not connected to facts or compelling in theory, but it does touch on anecdotal and emotional truths. I believe the writer could do better. (More, I believe HN readers should insist on writers doing better, to raise quality and offer harder challenges to people.)