Comment by simianwords

your's is a caveat against my larger more correct point: there's an optimal number of employees needed at any given productivity point.

its true that hiring and firing are asymmetrical, and CF has shown that they are willing to bear the brunt of the asymmetry and fire people despite the downsides.

that asymmetry lies doesn't disprove the original point: cloudflare simply doesn't require the _same_ number of people to work for them with AI.

if you disagree with this then you believe that companies should only have monotonically increasing number of employees which is quite ridiculous a claim