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bhouston•40 minutes ago

I think that Meta was just too early.

I think that software team size per product (how ever you define that) are going to continue to shrink over the next 3 years. You will only need a single product designer/developer/manager per small product eventually.

That said, we will ship a lot more products that will partially make up for that per-product team size shrinkage.

Ancalagon•22 minutes ago

They won’t even need managers, just watch.

chopete3•about 1 hour ago

If there is 36% increase in features shipped with half the team - that is a win.

Even if the new (half) team produces the same number of features it is a win.

Why is PR count or number of issues relevant for the overall outcome?. The article is trying to force fit the point their point about AI effectiveness

joshAg•about 1 hour ago

Likewise, major technical and security incidents increasing 40% is a loss, and the amount of time employees spent firefighting them rising 70% is a loss.

Meta tried to shrink engineering teams around AI

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