[florkbork]

The lag time between firing your core team and finding out that was a bad idea can be measured in years of slow attrition.

[antirez]

Actually workflow impact in the world of software can be observed in weeks/months at max. And token spending too, is a voice that they see at the high floors. Also, there was never a strong willing in IT companies to reduce cost of work force: it is done sometimes, but it is more common to see them over-hiring.

[florkbork]

Yeah, nah.

Simple example: Who will renew the SSL cert? Day 1: meh, no impact. Day 2: meh, no impact. Day 700: who the hell manages this and why are we making no revenue?

You might think that is laughable; what a pack of newbs!

But this stuff has already happened without even LLMs in the mix.

https://www.digicert.com/blog/lessons-from-the-equifax-data-... comes to mind.

The number of flea circus level orgs where someone has flubbed it and been on leave, causing a few hours outage? More than one in my experience.

Where it's more hostile? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1itiu8n/it_team_f... is a common narrative.