Comment by simonw
2 hours ago
Have you really seen engineers fired for failing to spend $1,000 on tokens a day because their bosses read my piece about Strong DM? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
I would hope that my commentary on those patterns would be less likely to lead to bad decisions than if people just read Strong DM's own description of their software factory approach: https://factory.strongdm.ai/
> Have you really seen engineers fired for failing to spend $1,000 on tokens a day because their bosses read my piece about Strong DM?
Bruh, come on. Not directly is the best answer I have for that. Unfortunately, they didn't read your article carefully, because the idea of productivity gains was all the candy they needed to jump in the van.
It sounds to me like you are blaming imagined job losses on anyone who wrote about an interesting experiment that a company did.