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And such engineer would have enough organizational clout to just ship it without going through anyone?
by hmokiguess 2mo ago
And such engineer would have enough organizational clout to just ship it without going through anyone?
- x313 2mo agoBluesky has <100 employees so it could be possible
- hmokiguess 2mo agoI agree that having less people to manage means easier to build trust relationships and culture, though I believe some form of management and control must exist.
- pfraze 2mo agoI'm sure this wasn't even in the top 10 of things that we made sam implement out of fear
- Slurpee99 2mo agoYou're fun
- rbaudibert 2mo agoThat's how a modern organization works. You trust your colleagues will do good work, and will ship something useful and there's not really "someone to go through". I agree this can be defined as cool and very very likely someone did this on their free time/prompted Claude on the side.
- hmokiguess 2mo agoIt's a Series B company, it needs to make money, and they have to answer to a board and provide information to investors. They have a roadmap, direction, and leadership. Yes, trust and good intentions is an awesome thing and I hope they have that indeed, but I would think reality lies in the middle of both sides.
- rbaudibert 2mo agoI've worked at a Series B company and reality is this is too minor for investors to care on its own, and it's also very hard to correlate this change to new revenue, so not something that's likely to have been done with that intention
- hmokiguess 2mo agoI guess we had very different experiences. Maybe it’s the B2C industry or these free apps
- whyrusleeping 2mo agoYes actually Sam often ships random fun things he feels like doing.
- demux 2mo agoIt's pretty easy to find the PR considering the entire app is OSS https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/9637 https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/9637