I resonate with your case (b). One reason why I intentionally don't use it is cases where I know exactly what code I want to write, and can thus write it quicker than I can explain it to Claude + have Claude write it.
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For Claude specifically, people who take more time to write long detailed prompts tend to get much better outcomes. Including me, since I made the effort to get better at prompt writing.
Since writing this a tangentially related thing we've added, is a github action that runs on any PR that includes a (Rails) database migration, and reviews it, comparing it to our docs for how to write good migrations.
Claude helped write the action so it was super easy to set up.
Wrote about it: https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/nobody-codes-here-anymore
This is the role of sales managers. They should be ensuring that known bad deals don’t happen. Mostly by auditing every deal. Usually it’s pretty quick and easy to tell if a deal is good or bad if you are trying to be objective.
If a salesperson won’t accept this rule - fire them.
But even with your numbers, a payback period of 6 months is very very cheap in b2b SaaS. You don’t pay commission in the second year the customer is with you and you expect customers to stick around for 5+ years (ideally much longer; it’s the inverse of your churn).
I think there’s a clawback if customers churn within 3 months or something like that. It’s rarely needed.
As a case study in simplicity: our sales people get 1xMRR for each deal closed, or 2xMRR if the deal signs an annual contract. SDRs get a flat amount for each demo sat (doesn’t have to close, but does have to be accepted by the AE). The amount is equivalent to 0.75xMRR for a typical customer.
That’s really all you need in SaaS. This has scaled from less than 1M ARR through to… more than 100x bigger than when it started.
“It fast” is enough for me, many of the “features” in editors are noise, and Sublime is the simplest and least noisy.
Which seems correct to me. It's not like it's easy to accidentally end up as a space miner with bad working conditions. To claim that unwitting people will be tricked into these conditions in the near future is to have watched too much sci-fi.
More likely, moon miners will be highly trained, highly skilled, highly paid, and highly aware of the risks.
This might change when we reach the point where it's cheap and easy to get and house lots of them up there. But that's far away still.
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Employers are still allowed to contact employees anytime.
Previously you could theoretically be terminated for not reading or replying to messages from your employer outside hours. Now there are restrictions on that. That’s all that’s changed.