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Just read this essay the other day. Banger. He was quite the guy.

sounded more plausible than "we over hired during the exuberance of 22/23 and now revenue has plateaued"

because it was never about that "superpower" 😉 not that I'm telling you anything you don't already know... at least Cloudflare stock was down last time I checked. I want the market to not reward companies for this kind of behavior.

It does make you kinda suspicious doesn’t it

Yeah. I wasn't making an observation about LLMs in particular, just, if you thought a bunch of people could do good software work if you hired them, you should be willing to put in the effort to find a way they can contribute if the specific work you had in mind goes away.

The thing I’m working on right now is like 10x more ambitious than it would have been 2 years ago

That time should be guarded as time to use expertise to do the boring research, testing, etc. before committing to being a feature factory. AI should enable us to experiment more without repercussions if done responsibly and respectfully of people's time and intelligence.

Boards of directors need to replace these idiot CEOs bsky.app/profile/crai...

The malaise of the 21st century, succinctly described:

Because it’s actually “you find a convenient excuse to do layoffs without spooking the investors or having to publicly acknowledge that you’re preparing for stagflation”.

It's not very fiduciaryesque to act this way for sure :P