Comment by Traubenfuchs
2 hours ago
> just pointing an agent swarm at 50 Github tickets and saying "go get 'em boys"
I still don‘t know if this is real. If it works like that, where are the companies that only kept every tenth, 10x‘d AI enhanced dev? They should have significantly higher margins. The companies that keep all devs and 10x‘d them, finally bringing that backlog to 0 should have exploding revenue and profit.
Where does AI create value? I can‘t see it.
I use it every day, but nothing got faster.
The creation of downstream issues has gotten faster, in my experience. The rate at which shit is thrown against walls has also gotten faster.
Exactly. If you can free engineering capacity from tedious busywork (fixing bugs), you have them available for implementing/delegating to implement experimental features into new revenue streams.
Why fire anyone in this scenario? Growth is only going to keep coming.
> They should have significantly higher margins.
I don't think devs are that expensive relative to a big company.
Airbnbs revenue last year was 12b. If they have 1000 engineers,maybe average 200k/yr that's only 200m. If they got rid of their engineers still only a fraction of of the revenue