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> since he is clairvoyant to the future

AI software development is the present, not the future. You don't need to be a clairvoyant to see AI replaced (some) developers.

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Nah, if AI were truly revolutionary, those developers would all be twice as productive. So why would you fire them?

Because Block is a mature company now and they don't need the extra productivity. It's not just better for Block but also for the whole society that these developers leave for more innovating companies.

AI writes code. It doesn't fix organizational problems.

But there were no organisational problems according to Jack. Also do you really believe Block has reached peak productivity? Does any company ever reach it?

Because productivity doesn't scale linearly with quantity of developers. There's a point where it plateaus or even descends as quantity of developers goes up.

The quantity of devs is not changing though. If AI really makes the existing devs more productive then the plateau should become higher.

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