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Didn't all major companies do mass-firings recently? What do you expect will happen if an entry-level software engineer becomes 2x as productive? You need 2x l
by fxtentacle 4y ago
Didn't all major companies do mass-firings recently?
What do you expect will happen if an entry-level software engineer becomes 2x as productive? You need 2x less, so you fire half the team.
- spoiler 4y agoA smart company will realise it's better to be 2x productive for the same money than to be at the same productivity for half the money.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoWrong, there's just so much a company can dedicate itself too, otherwise you'll start doing little useless experiments that go nowhere like google
- spoiler 4y agoI think Google has a weird pathological case maybe. So, I'm not sure I would use them as a forecast. I think R&D is good in any company. Sure, the nature of R&D is that most of it is failure; that's just the way it is. AI makes the R&D iteration shorter and cheaper, IMO. The more you try, the more likely you're to succeed (aside: I should listen to my own advice sometimes lol).