this kind of story is so stupid
whatsapp had 500m users w/ ~35 engineers maintaining it
ftx was doing $10 billion in daily volume w/ like ~10 engineers
braindead misattribution of ai companies scaling fast to "ai automation" right now... everyone's talking their book
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@TheEthanDing The gains from automation are being traded off against human capital. A complex app serving millions of people is now maintained by a tiny handful of people.
In the past, you might have seen a team of a hundred devs thrown at it.
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