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> we will fire you as soon as we can HN used to ridicule bloated organizations. “Why is there 1000 people? That’s a weekend project plus support.” Now it defe

• Spooky23 1y ago
  Old skool HN was about starting companies. Most of the startups are pretty meh these days and everyone wants to go hide in some massive company that is printing money. The big growth era is over. We’re entering an era of conglomerates and bullshit government back scratching. The big tech companies are going to be like 1960’s ITT, FMC, etc.
• blululu 1y ago
  I think this is something else. These plans are not about cutting moribund departments that produce nothing. These are plans to fire people who are currently performing well and delivering for the company absent any downturn. This is very different than cutting bloat in that these people are currently holding up their end of the bargain for employment. Personally I would also suggest that seeking gains that come 100% at the expense of a business partner is a real asshole move. HN also used to ridicule organizations that have no vision for future growth. From a business perspective the more scathing indictment of these executives is that they have no plan for capitalizing on AI. If a VC asked a startup what they would do with an extra X engineers or $Y in cloud credits, and the answer is "we would do the same things we are doing now" the VC would probably pass on the company. AI gives you twice the engineers. If your company doesn't have any plans to take advantage of this opportunity then it is already in decline.