Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Feb 27

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.

Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Feb 27

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.

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@Migueldeicaza How do we know their layoffs are directly caused by LLM efficiency gains and not simply correlated?
Feb 27 at 9:52pmWeb
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Feb 28
@djh I don’t, but it doesn’t surprise me. The last three months are a whole different game than 6, 9, 12 months ago