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points by mshish 5 hours ago | 0 comments
Article seems somewhat one sided to me. The style of the CEO doesn't sound good, but there's no discussion of specific tooling, harnesses, and other automation they have in place. Reading the letter posted, it sounds like they've got more in place than the article implies but people have been resisting adopting.
[–] defgeneric 5 hours ago
Yeah this sounds a lot to me like blowback from current or former employees. There's no specific evidence yet of bad security practices, but the mere suggestion of it is a problem for a company whose image is centered on privacy. It's a knife well-aimed by someone who knew where to aim it.
[–] timmytokyo 5 hours ago
Is it good security practice to replace engineers with product managers?

"This will be the last year that we hire engineers, and starting next year we hire what we used to call product managers, to build things with AI."

By the way, this is where the industry would like to go. Pay attention, people.

[–] ehnto 2 hours ago
Why not have the engineers, or "implementors", known for systems thinking, build things with AI? A team of product managers building things is like saying I want my factory floor manager on the tools, running the machines. The evolution of that role just lands you at a team of implementors again, who still need a leader. You already have that.

In a sense, you're demoting your managers to implementors, and getting rid of their leadership role altogether. Simultaneously getting rid of your prior engineers and all the domain and tribal knowledge they had built up.

[–] defgeneric 3 hours ago
It seems to me an intentionally provocative formulation, and maybe a symptom of an ongoing internal shake-up. But think about it--is he really saying anything so different compared to what some of our best well-known engineers like antirez have been saying?

I think we all know the game has changed. The question would be whether the CEO is handling that effectively. On that score I don't think he is. It sounds like a slow-moving mutiny is going on, and to have it blow up in the press means you've already failed.

[–] bigstrat2003 2 hours ago
> I think we all know the game has changed.

We do not all know anything of the sort. From my perspective, the game hasn't changed at all, and it's just a bunch of people hyping up a bubble who think it has.

[–] phyzome 5 hours ago
Posting the CEO's own words seems pretty fair to the CEO.