AI observer: headcount is no longer a proxy for ambition
signulll · x · 2026-11-12
Popular account signulll argues that in the AI era, headcount increasingly fails as a proxy for a company's ambition — a company can become vastly more capable without growing physically larger.
Still true at the macro level: great people compound each other's judgment, creativity, and taste — the hardest thing left to automate. For everything else, "there is more or less a solution."
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