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once again this is a clueless understanding of increasing productivity. If I build a tool and make a person irrelevent, then I didn't increase productivity of
by deltree7 5y ago
once again this is a clueless understanding of increasing productivity.
If I build a tool and make a person irrelevent, then I didn't increase productivity of the laid-off worker. I merely increased my own productivity.
What OP said was his tool specifically increased the productivity of all other users, which means his team can churn out features faster.
Show me a management team that says no to it
- CrazyStat 5y agoThat's easy: a management team that only needs ~X new features per month, not 4X. No organization has an infinite demand for features. If they currently have 50 devs working on the platform, maybe after quadrupling the productivity of each dev they'll keep 20. Speed of development increases by 60% and they save 30 developers worth of expenses, which means hefty end-of-year bonuses for every manager up the chain. More likely they keep about 13-15. It's naive and boneheaded to insist that productivity increases never result in layoffs.