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Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

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Re: Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

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"Non-technical teams are now shipping production code"

This is going to save a lot of money ... until someone loots their vault and they go bankrupt. "Non-technical teams are now shipping production code" is the last thing you want to hear from your bank.

Re: Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI and crypto --- what could go wrong?

This: User just tricked Grok and Bankrbot to send tokens with Morse code https://www.cryptopolitan.com/user-tricked-grok-bankrbot-to-...

People still unironically use Web3 as a term, that's hilarious.

Re: Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

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At least the compensation package sounds nice for those layed off. What I'm really intrigued by is the non technical staff deploying code to production. Now that's a gamble I want to see in the crypto space.

"US employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA."

4 months basic severance pay + 1 month for 2 years emploument is nice? so total 5 months severance after 2 years of working for them or only 6 months after 4 years

let me guess you are from US if you think this is nice, as European I would say this is fairly standard, nothing to brag about, 3 months should be bare minimum by law

Re: Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

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> Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. T

Is Brian here? Can he speak more to this? What exactly are non technicals shipping to production code?

I've got no position in Coinbase but is that a wise thing to say as a public company? I'd be alarmed if I were a share holder

Re: Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

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Lol “Non-technical teams are now shipping production code” definitely what I want my financial institution doing.

That statement does not inspire confidence considering how ripe crypto is for hackers/scammers, if anything it makes me want to close my Coinbase account.

Re: Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

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"Non-technical teams are now shipping production code"

This is going to save a lot of money ... until someone loots their vault and they go bankrupt. "Non-technical teams are now shipping production code" is the last thing you want to hear from your bank.

It is weird to read this considering they should have enough money to employ enough software engineers.

Why would non-programmers need to ship production code in a financial context?

Re: Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

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Lol “Non-technical teams are now shipping production code” definitely what I want my financial institution doing.

Depends on what they're shipping. We're doing this with UI work, as long as your backend is secure I don't see what the issue is personally.

Generally engineers are not well placed to be building UIs.

Re: Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

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> Coinbase is well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm. Crypto is also on the verge of the next wave of adoption

Crypto is always about to take off. If the company is sitting so well, and is facing imminent growth, then they don't need to do layoffs, they want to. Or the company is not sitting so rosy and they're not too sure about their future.

> Non-technical teams are now shipping production code

What could go wrong?

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