what impact will that have on software development as a field Ignoring the fact it's Elon and Twitter, because those are incredible devisive subjects, your que

what impact will that have on software development as a field Ignoring the fact it's Elon and Twitter, because those are incredible devisive subjects, your question is really "What would happen if someone successfully implemented a massive change to simplify how a tech company works?" We're also going to have to assume that it does work out which will take anything up to a couple of years to play out. But hypotheticals are fun so I'll play along. Basically nothing will change unless people can figure out how the change worked. You can't just cargo cult firing half your staff, driving another quarter out, and radically slash and burning your internal services. That would immediately end most companies. Twitter seems to have been doing a lot of "non-core" things that could be shut down without impacting the main product so it ould work there though. I strongly suspect a business that did this will have a hard time growing afterwards. Recruiting people to a company that recently lost 75% of the head count would be difficult, so doing things that the current staff aren't capable of will be a challenge. That will probably lead to stagnation for a while if the business survives. In time, that will alienate investors and users. tl;dr its a hell of a risky thing to copy. Some companies will be looking at Twitter and thinking they could do the same thing, and I think we'll see a few businesses try it and fail. Side note: Something really important to remember in all of this is that most businesses don't employ people to babysit their products. They build their product to be resilient and able to run without many people. Babysitters are a waste of money if you can automate the process instead. Twitter appears to have done that pretty well. What that should tell you is that Twitter's staff were good at their jobs, and losing them hinders Twitter's ability to make more good, resilient products in the future. Twitter will find it harder to grow. To use a car analogy - it's a bit like saying Tesla could fire 75% of its staff because the Model S factory runs well. Sure, but how do they then make the next model?