I mean they may be working around the clock, but after 5 or 6 layoffs in 3 years… half their engineers are probably still learning the code base.

I don’t think their engineers « learn the codebase » anymore, that’s so 2025. It’s all agentic now, the model learns the codebase, the engineer ask the agents to do their best and believe in themselves

Which is why my colleague pushed fix after fix but still failed at addressing the root cause of a bug. Turns out outsourcing all your thinking to a machine that doesn't truly understand your system yet hallucinates isn't going to work.

Yeah, and the rest are probably not quite so invested.