Re:Fable Took My Job
by antupis on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:35AM
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Thing is that you cannot do 24/7 oncall with two person and Opus 5.5 . Also bus factor start to be pretty big if there is only two persons etc. There is still reasons why FAANGS are so big.
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Sure you can, as long as nobody complains too much about problems during night if those 2 people can work overtime every now and then.
You can probably even promise 99% uptime (sounds good enough to most buyers probably?) even if people sleep 8 hours a day as long as the failures comes no earlier than than 15 minutes into their sleep and only happens at most once a month (1% of 30 days is 7,8 hours).
^ this. It's so doable. You can even hit targets better than this.
>Thing is that you cannot do 24/7 oncall with two person and Opus 5.5
Almost all 24/7 on call is support theater anyway.
>Also bus factor start to be pretty big if there is only two persons etc.
Not if a newcomer can be assisted by the other person or even just by AI in understanding the codebase.
Re:Fable Took My Job
by magnusokik on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:55AM
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depends where you work. on a tiny team the 3am page is usually real and its usually you
Re:Fable Took My Job
by potatoproduct on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:41AM
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Ok, three persons.