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A company must cut half its engineers to pay for the other half's tokens, and that is what the layoffs are actually about.
Drawn from what Steve Yegge said
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What Steve Yegge actually said
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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google
Because they're all starting to spend their own salaries in tokens. And so, at least for a while, if you want your engineers to be as productive as possible, you're going to have to get rid of half of them to make the other half maximally productive.
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