150 open headcounts: backend teams scramble as scale-driven complexity explodes
AlchainHust · x · 2026-09-08
@tianyi explains the reasoning behind an unusual 150-headcount hiring push: data, containers, training/eval jobs, agent environments, users and request volume are all exploding, and that scale brings complexity growth that legacy backend systems can't handle — driving massive hiring to upgrade, maintain and rewrite them. Alchain adds that top-tier engineers won't be replaced by agents any time soon.
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