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This is a troublesome thought. It will mean that our profession is likely to get a lot more difficult. Perhaps a union or guild of some description would be in

• tgv 4y ago
  There's a lot of cruft, wouldn't you agree? Now, software engineering has a hard time getting rid of it, because we don't know what's going to be cruft in advance. So many promising designs turned out to be just a waste of time. But as long as we can't predict success, we're going to have to go through the motions. Once you have a working product, it's a bit easier. Maintenance is more predictable. But without R&D/innovation, you're slowly going to fall behind, and that's hard to overcome. So it might not be impossible that Twitter can keep running with a much smaller staff, but even then it might be the beginning of the end. We'll know in a few years...