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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have zero Honeybadger errors, performance is acceptable for all our routes in the application, and all of our key stakeholders are ecstatic about what we've built. Is there some other metric I should be measuring our code by?

What about the actual users? If this works for you, go ahead, I can't stop you. But this is not software craftsmanship, or even software engineering. Don't act like it is.

Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear—we write business software. The "key stakeholders" are the users. And they're ecstatic. They love what we're building.

I'd actually say it's both craftsmanship and engineering. :)

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

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I'll probably get some flack for this, but this is about as good of a layoff email as he could have sent. * explains the reasons (financials, AI enablement) * talks about what folks who are leaving get in detail (first) and thanks them * talks to the folks who are staying Layoffs are hard, no doubt, and I am not sure he's making the right choice. I see plenty of doubt about some of the actions in other comments that…

All these emails are written by AI nowadays and therefore they all sound he same. This is not a grand achievement or a sign of a great CEO.
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