alt Hacker NewsMythical man month, maybe throwing everybody in the company at it isn't the right thing to do. But they must be in a panic, and their own communications internally may well be hampered, could be MS everything is out for MS as well as everybody else.
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flir • today at 10:06 AM
I've seen the response to an emergency be "get every dev in a big room with some non-technical middle managers to direct them, and have everybody talk at once". My jaw was on the floor.
"When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout".
Someone's going to have to write the Mythical AI Month after this.
If you lose 90% of developers to AI, but everything breaks, how much money have you saved?
The underlying moral issue is that the management and money people have contempt for people who don't manage and don't have money. Which includes customers and engineers.
It's not just an inhumane system - although it is, that, brutally - but it's also technologically dysfunctional and ultimately unstable.