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This is the time to accept that the path forward is keeping people and giving them the best tools you possibly can to do their work. That is, the same as has be
by mlhpdx 1y ago
This is the time to accept that the path forward is keeping people and giving them the best tools you possibly can to do their work. That is, the same as has been true for decades remains so.
Yes, development tools are better every day. Yes, you can downsize. No it won’t be felt immediately. Yes, it mortgages the future and at a painfully high interest rate.
Suspending disbelief won’t make downsizing work better.
- croes 1y ago> Yes, development tools are better every day Are they?
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoI don't think there's ignorance of the fact that turnover is bad, I think the field is being designed to homogenize staff and favor uniform mediocrity so that employees truly do become interchangeable. We're so close to just plain talent being likened to cowboyism.
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- RobRivera 1y agoI observed a similar thing in the post Goldwater active duty officer corps reformations.
- bcrosby95 1y agoNah, the decades old crop of "new" big tech companies are just entering their IBM phase.
- goldchainposse 1y agoWhere are the young companies trying to replace them? There are all the AI companies, but Google and Meta both have competitive chatbots, and OpenAI is signing weird deals that don't make it look like a long-term player.
- ModernMech 1y agoThey all get bought out by Amazon, Google, Meta et al. The cash just tastes too good when stacked up against the prospect of grinding for 15 years and probably nothing coming of it.
- mcny 1y agoGoogle tried to sell itself to Yahoo! for a million dollars.
- pyrale 1y agoRemember these antitrust laws the US decided not to enforce? Turns out they are useful, after all.
- CobrastanJorji 1y agoSeems like it worked fine. They laid off a quarter of their junior principal engineers, the stock went up. They had a massive outage a few months later, the stock went up again. Everything's working out fine for their strategy so far.
- few 1y agoI remember comments saying the stock went up because the average joe didn't realize how much of the internet was powered by AWS until all their day to day apps started failing. To most people Amazon is an online shopping site.
- selimthegrim 1y agoThe memes going around when the National Inquirer tried to blackmail Bezos and people were showing what their site was running on were pretty classic
- array_key_first 1y agoIt continues to work until eventually the debt is so high the company implodes. See: general electric, RCA, Xerox, GM
- foobarian 1y agoYou would think this would eventually show up on the balance sheets, right? Presumably a lot of their big customers have SLAs with money penalties, so maybe next quarter earnings? Or quarter after that?