Comment by bantunes

13 hours 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  12 hours 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.

  • bantunes  3 hours 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.