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> You can't innovate and software engineer using 1950s style "butts in seats"

This seems to be pulled from thin air. Nobody would have murmured it 3 years ago. You really think the whole world changed that much in the past 3 years that you can lay down such a superlative?

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>You really think the whole world changed that much in the past 3 years that you can lay down such a superlative?

Because 3 years ago people thought it wouldn't work. The pandemic showed it does.

I'm not sure a huge tech recession is exactly proof.

In what way is the current tech recession related to remote work, and not decades of free investment money followed by massive inflation?

decades of free investment money you say?

Over 14 years of QE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_Sta...

And Quantitative Easing is a "refinement" of the Greenspan Put in the late 1980s. So yeah, 30+ years at this point.

companies mad hired to offset productivity declines

so many of that decline is because people can’t be trusted to workout without being baby sat

(Internet) companies mad-hired because they thought COVID permanently accelerated the demand shift to online from brick-and-mortar. It turned out it wasn't a new baseline after all.

Source? Or is it just hearsay?

Reading generously, I would say you could interpret that statement more like: "Now that we know it is possible to innovate with an asynchronous workforce, and most people want to work that way, it will be extremely difficult for us to gather the same quality of individuals in one place to innovate if we decide we need their butts to be in seats."

That's not a superlative, plenty of people had that opinion before three years ago, and sure, why not, it's a web forum.

>Nobody would have murmured it 3 years ago.

Isn’t the word “nobody” literally a superlative?

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