It's like saying you're not paying for senior level engineers because you can ge...

wilkystyle · 2026-09-05T18:23:17

Assuming what GP said is accurate (tokenmaxxers not delivering more value for the usage), the analogy is more like realizing the seniors you hired aren't actually producing any better results than juniors you could get for a quarter of the cost.

kolinko · 2026-09-06T09:27:55

Well sure, diminishing returns are a thing.

bigyabai · 2026-09-05T17:41:55

If the assignment isn't a 600,000 SLOC greenfield superproject, that's a perfectly acceptable alternative.

sschueller · 2026-09-05T12:56:47

Not like companies to fire senior engineers and then hiring two juniors to replace them to optimize expenses... /s

kolinko · 2026-09-05T13:45:24

An official motto of a president of one of the biggest software companies in Poland (Comarch) was "you can replace any experienced engineer with a finite amount of sutdents... for half of the cost".

It must be super interesting working there rn :D