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These articles are fun. Just don't take them too serious. On the one hand, the place is on fire, on the other, some newb can do the job of 20 people.

"Twitter's layoffs have resulted in an extensive reorganization of remaining workers, the engineer told the BBC. He said that one "totally new" staff member without expertise was now doing a job that used to be done by more than 20 people. The New York Times previously reported that some junior employees have been left in charge of areas they haven't worked on before."

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I'd suggest if it's on fire it's not really a case that a "newb can do the job of 20 people."

It's a bit like driving around on a donut; Sure you can do it but it's not stable, durable, or performant.

You’d be shocked how poorly Twitter was run before. So many people just coasting and not really contributing. The transition will be messy, but they’ll come out if it a better product and a better company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E3

Twitter's interim CEO has a track record pushing the pace of automation. He has the mindset for an ordinary person to operate a space capsule or ev car with advanced chips behind the scenes doing the automation. The following comment on his Twitter is more amusing than the one he made to an audience at E3

  This is arguably the most mind-blowing thing about "reality"

  A practical limit to digits of pi is how many are needed to 
  divide the universe into Planck voxels
Twitter Must Not Win, the media chants.

* EDIT: I’m just riffing off the bizarre “Russia must not win” messaging everybody’s mindlessly repeating since the Munich security conference. The media’s taking the same tack in both cases.