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Like Amazon, Meta, whatever.
Like they dwarf anything that's happening in the startup space.
So they are just vacuuming up like all the demand.
Any company that is in the supply chain, they don't want to talk to you because they're busy trying to get something with Amazon or Microsoft or Google.
So yeah, it's very...
I think it'll get resolved.
I think in my whole career, anytime I've seen any kind of shortage,
there was a tense period and it was met with like crazy oversupply.
It might be different this time, but generally that's how I see things go.
But right now it's tight.
So the thing I was talking about in that post is,
The majority, again, we forget how big this software engineering industry is.
Every company in the world employs software engineers to some degree, right?
The majority of these environments aren't the most motivating, exciting environments.
Most people there are trying to do their job, go home to their kids, have a reasonable life.
You give them a button that lets them do their work faster,
the natural place for them to do is hit that button as much as possible do the same amount of work and just cash in that extra time right which makes total sense like if you're not if you have no reason to be above and beyond motivated you're not going to really use that to like you know push your organization harder
yeah these tools may make you more productive but like be really realistic about your employees like where are they gonna like cash in cash in those gains obviously some companies are not like that their employees are motivated they have good reason to be they're compensated in a way that that makes sense but most places aren't like that uh and the problem with that is usually in those environments it's like there will be a couple people that are irrationally motivated because you know they love the work they do etc even though the rest of the company isn't as motivated
They're usually the ones that are trying to make sure everything is good quality, push everyone to try harder.