Dev culture gripe: to companies, engineers are just headcount spreadsheet rows
arthurcolle · x · 2026-09-07
A developer laments that in a company's organizational view, human engineers are essentially tools: capacity planning happens via abstracted headcount spreadsheets, and it is not very personal. The take resonated as commentary on how big companies treat engineers as interchangeable capacity units.
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