We went through this exact decision point 18 months ago. But we chose to keep the team. Redirected them. Our threat detection pipeline, which would've taken 8 months to build - surprisingly and luckily shipped in 11 weeks. That's not a productivity stat, that's a product moat. The companies gutting engineering right now are going to realise too late that AI amplifies what you already have. If you fire the people with…
I've been trying to figure out a formula how to describe the gains AI use gives. It's not a direct multiplier, because even non-programmers can get stuff done with it just from an idea. And it's not exactly an exponent either, even though experienced programmers can get absolutely massive gains when they learn to worth with it. "Replace tools, not jobs" is the best AI slogan I've found yet. Use the VC funded practica…
Re: Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
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