Engineering Productivity

“And I think that's the gap has grown so much now between the frontier of the level of productivity that you can achieve as an engineer as the median practice of the median engineer, especially in big companies that now employers have no choice, but to just lay…”

“So in a lot of these cases, the way to drive up productivity is to reduce the burden around like a small number of like really high performers. But if those performers ever leave, your productivity is going to drop massively as well. And so it's sort of a high…”