@GergelyOrosz: Allen is totally right about this: Pre-AI, startups have *always* had small, 3-5 person dev teams, no PMs, no designers…
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A tweet discussing Allen Holub's perspective that AI-native startups are similar to traditional startups with small teams, and referencing Meta's attempt to use AI for mass layoffs as reported in the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter.
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Allen is totally right about this:
Pre-AI, startups have always had small, 3-5 person dev teams, no PMs, no designers, no UX, no TPM, no {other function}
“AI-native startups” are just startups
Large companies have bigger teams because… complexity grows. The cost of winning
Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub (@allenholub): Today’s Pragmatic Engineer newsletter [https://t.co/tla1dGsrzt] was talking about Meta’s misguided attempt to fire everybody and replace them with AI. Zuch was evididently thinking (if you can call it that) that mass layoffs would make them look more like a startup.
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