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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by eru on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:11AM (#46585487)
Well, perhaps it'll only shrink the engineering team by 95% then.
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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by LouisSayers on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:11AM (#46586878)
Why would you shrink the team rather than become 20x more productive as a whole?
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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by eru on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:01AM (#46587858)
Either way can work. It depends on what the rest of the business needs.
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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by daxfohl on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:03PM (#46612210)
Users don't want changes that rapidly. There's not enough people on the product team to design 20x more features. 20x more features means 400x more cross-team coordination. There's only positive marginal ROI for maybe 1.5-2x even if development is very cheap.
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