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alecco ◴[] No.43488251[source]
Musk showed 80% were useless hires and AI gave the rest of the CEOs the excuse.

So now they are downsizing and moving teams to India. From Google to American Airlines. What could possibly go wrong.

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1. disambiguation ◴[] No.43489854[source]
Musk showed that it takes a lot of people to build a bridge and only a few to maintain it.

Why anyone continues to use it is another question entirely.

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2. typewithrhythm ◴[] No.43490680[source]
Twitter was built long before it's headcount reached its peak.

It suffered through a fairly common problem where due to its value and revenue it tries to justify a huge headcount, usually due to managers getting paid based on headcount numbers. In reality it always should have had less numerous, better paid engineers, rather than management parasites.