Founder: AI Can Now Do the Work of 10 Employees Before You Hire
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-29
A founder thread argues you often don't need to hire immediately — AI can take on the work of what used to take 10 employees. When hitting a bottleneck, first ask: "How could an agent finish this without my help?" Example flow: an error alert fires a Slack notification, an agent enters the thread, writes code and fixes the issue on its own.
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