Newsletter by Gergely Orosz covering software engineering practices, management, and trends at major tech companies.
Authorization was absent rather than broken, which is the defect class a reviewer catches and a test suite signs off on. The newsletter reporting it also finds individual output up and team output flat.
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Reuters reporting on Project OT, relayed by the Pragmatic Engineer, shows Meta's reduction target was fixed in January while the productivity claim underneath it was still untested in May, and half the plan ran anyway.
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The plan assumed smaller teams would work as well as before, which is a bet on 2.5 times the output per head. The version that actually shipped, a 10% layoff plus infra engineers seconded to labeling, left outages behind.
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The two-week Enzyme removal is credible enough, but it is priced against a five-year staffing plan written by people who did not want the project, and Airbnb's published numbers let you check the rate that plan assumed.
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Block, Stripe and Shopify run in-house coding agents too. What Ramp built is not a model but a credentialed development box, and that is the part procurement cannot order.
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