Coding agents left software firms 'horrendously overstaffed,' investor warns
doodlestein · x · 2026-10-13
doodlestein argues that software companies that staffed up before coding agents got good are horrendously overstaffed and should 'rip off the bandaid' now before tiny new competitors disrupt them. He adds the shift is brutal and unfair to long-time employees, and that a similar reckoning awaits most knowledge workers.
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