Investor says coding agents left most software firms badly overstaffed, cut now or be disrupted
doodlestein · x · 2026-10-13
doodlestein argues that most software companies that scaled headcount before coding agents got good are horrendously overstaffed, and should "rip off the bandaid" now before tiny new competitors disrupt them.
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