Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
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Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
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Re: Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
#2I’ve never worked anywhere where there isn’t at least 3 times more work to do than there is time and developers to do it.
Re: Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
#3I’ve never worked anywhere where there isn’t at least 3 times more work to do than there is time and developers to do it.
But when you do that extra 200% of work, would that give you a better output from a business point of view?
Re: Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
#4This article itself is AI slop, of course this is not surprising coming from a website called "ai-updates.net" which I get the impression that might be entirely vibe coded too.
I feel that maybe in the future HN will have to implement a "low quality AI" flag or something(if it has aleady I'm not aware).
Re: Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
#5Software developers are famous for lamenting the high time preferences of business forcing them to make poor engineering decisions. The dynamic is common.
Therefore one should not expect higher quality out of many businesses using AI, but you should certainly expect such businesses to highly value AI. The arguments in favor of quality didn't seem to work before, I don't think they will now.
Re: Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
#6This article itself is AI slop, of course this is not surprising coming from a website called "ai-updates.net" which I get the impression that might be entirely vibe coded too. I feel that maybe in the future HN will have to implement a "low quality AI" flag or something(if it has aleady I'm not aware).
You can already flag threads
Re: Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
#7I’ve never worked anywhere where there isn’t at least 3 times more work to do than there is time and developers to do it.
But when you do that extra 200% of work, would that give you a better output from a business point of view?
IMO
I’m getting a lot of small stuff done that I wouldn’t have touched previously. It’s a little bit nicer for users but I would say the difference is marginal
Re: Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
#8Article is light on details but the premise is something I’ve seen playing out for series A and B companies. Head-counts that were growing as some pretty stable function of revenue growth having a sharp trend change starting about 6-9 months ago.
Re: Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
#9> The company has used the amount of code shipped as a major indicator of engineering output.
> That metric is controversial.
An important point that’s buried quite a bit down the article. Grindr seems to be measuring AI success not on features shipped or business value created, but on number of lines of code generated which seems a fairly flaky justification for such a large AI spend personally.
Re: Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers
#10> The company has used the amount of code shipped as a major indicator of engineering output. > That metric is controversial. An important point that’s buried quite a bit down the article. Grindr seems to be measuring AI success not on features shipped or business value created, but on number of lines of code generated which seems a fairly flaky justification for such a large AI spend personally.
If you use a wrong metric you get wrong results.