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The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers

https://www.hackyexperiments.com/blog/the-revenge-of-the-measurers
20•bilater•57m ago

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trollbridge•7m ago
I’d be more impressed if this article weren’t obviously written by AI.

Regarding the idea of a rise of “trillionaires”, gobal wealth is about $470T. Unless there is a gigantic expansion of the middle class from formerly poor people, it is impossible to have more than 470 trillionaires.

The idea of a 1 person billion dollar company or 5-10 employee in the Fortune 500 is laughable. Any business doing that much turnover is going to be hiring lots of vendors and contractors. I guess they could decide to outsource nearly all operations to keep headcount low, but the idea of one singular person generating a billion dollars of value from labour alone with no assistance from capital of an employer is likewise laughable.

ChrisMarshallNY•7m ago
> Due process for account suspensions.

Too late, for that. From what I hear, account suspensions with Google are basically the "love scene" from Deliverance.

Insanity•3m ago
Reads like more AI fearmongering because it fits a convenient narrative.
bilater•1m ago
Nope - I'm as optimistic about AI as they come. It's humans that scare me. The article is about managing the transition to Valhalla.
hazard•2m ago
> Some engineers, given a fixed token budget, generate exponentially more (and better) output. Other engineers waste their tokens. The variance is enormous, and unlike most performance variance, it is now directly measurable. HR has never had a clearer signal of leverage.

This doesn't make sense to me. "A clearer signal of leverage" implies an objective way to measure software engineering output, which has been the white whale of engineering management for the last 50 years.

and_ls•2m ago
That is just the latest adaptation of AI boosting. List the downsides, be empathetic but close with the real strategy:

"To get AI, we need the people, which includes the measurers, on board. To get the people on board, we need to give them something: money, security, dignity, a credible story about where they fit. We do not have to figure out the long-run answer to what humans are for. We just have to manage the next five years."

The blogger otherwise experiments with gastown-like setups and is maybe afraid that his toy will disappear:

https://www.hackyexperiments.com/experiments/agent-order

coffeebeqn•1m ago
This is so hyperbolic I don’t even know what to say. A 1000x Engineer? Have you actually used these tools?

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1•thm•2m ago•0 comments

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4•Brajeshwar•12m ago•1 comments

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