We’ve also reduced the hours we work per week. We care about getting things done not time behind a screen.
Normally as we add enterprise customers we have to dedicate more dev resource keeping them happy. But since Claude code and now codex we have not felt that feeling of not being on top of the work. Thus not feeling the need to hire more devs.
That is not true IMHO.
If one is expecting Lovable to create a production app by just giving a few prompts, that obviously is not going to happen, not now and most probably for a long time.
However, if you use Claude Code or one of the proper IDEs, you can definitely guide it step by step and build production quality code, actually code that may even be better than most software engineers out there.
Moreover, these tools allow you to take your proficiency in software dev and specific languages/frameworks to other languages/frameworks without being an expert in them, and that I think is a huge win in itself.
It may be an excuse to layoff but it’s not ramping up velocity in ways that PR is making it seem to non tech literate.
From my experience, these are better suited at the moment for small teams and new projects. It’s unclear to me how they’ll work in large team/massive legacy code situations. Teams will have to experiment and come up with processes that work. IMHO anyway.