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Can someone help me understand why Twitter had not crumbled from the overwhelming weight of software decay after 50% of the staff was laid off? I’m not being sa

• AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  People leaving doesn't cause decay. Decay happens over time - usually not just in a month. People leaving means that there's nobody there who can fix the decay when it happens, though.
• DethNinja 4y ago
  Did they ever disclose exact amount of engineers that were laid off? Twitter laid off lots of people but I doubt majority of them were engineers.
  • sgerenser 4y ago
    According to this: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs-engineering-spreadsheet-1849767712 https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs-engineering-sp... the first round of layoffs was around 40% engineers.
• JonChesterfield 4y ago
  Patience. It hasn't been long, and they probably left a test suite running under CI. Ideally it doesn't push to production without the tests passing and noone is left who knows how to disable it.
  • ranting-moth 4y ago
    I mean, this test is really annoying and it's testing a case that I'll guarantee 100% won't happen often in production.
• bakuninsbart 4y ago
  There's a number of plausible scenarios: 1. It takes more time for the rot to show. 2. Twitter devs were amazing at building really solid software 3. The culture of twitter was really that 1 person did the work and 9 others watched, enough of the productive devs stayed. 4. The effects of rot are overestimated. I have no insight into how twitter worked as a company before Musk's takeover though, and I still think it is quite likely major problems will occur in the next couple of months.