What happened at Block will likely happen everywhere else - companies now find themselves with an overstock of talent, and they are not structurally ready to absorb additional capacity.

People will achieve more with less - but this also opens the doors to building entire new businesses.

Some folks are under the mistaken impression that our industry builds careful, handcrafted solutions.

Most of the software industry was slop already. AI solutions are an improvement over the previous low quality slop.

@Migueldeicaza it’s funny i’ve always found analogies to civil engineering that a lot of software engineering books make laughable as that isn’t really how most software is built .