My thoughts on Primeagen: Coinbase layoff and restructuring: Primeagen: Coinbase layoff and restructuring
Commentary
- Primeagen: Coinbase layoff and restructuring
- This is interesting, I am seeing this a lot, seen myself. Not sure where it might end up in, but it feels like the mixture of over hiring and the hype of AI at peak.
- Yes, coinbase is something very transaction heavy, and the statement was wired “Non-engineers (non-technical) people to produce code to ship to production”. I am not against non-technical people being able to write code, but I am thinking why can’t they weigh what is at stake, like its a critical business. One transaction here and there, its gone bro!
- Writing code has become cheaper, and if engineers are being fired, then that means writing code at that company was a labour type of thing. Because writing good software hasn’t become cheaper yet. The agents are able to work effectively in codebases where engineers have spent years and years of experience and thinking into it. It hasn’t been built within a day of 37k lines of code sprints. Its coming boys, that realization that software engineers don’t just write code, they translate human requirements to software not code.