logoalt Hacker News

rvztoday at 10:19 PM1 replyview on HN

In 2022, Twitter / X was supposed to have completely shut down according to many doomsters at the time. It is clear that many in [0], [1] and [2] also would like to ask the same question why Twitter / X still hasn't shut down.

Turns out almost 4 years later, we are going to waiting even longer for the collapse.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33984823

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34214903

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34617964


Replies

kristianctoday at 10:30 PM

He had the good fortune to cut just as AI was beginning to mean you needed fewer software engineers for the same level of output. And yes, software companies across the industry had accumulated in many instances people whose business was not, and was sometimes orthogonal to, building software.

show 2 replies