I guess if you think about your teammates as purely inputs and outputs and not people that can improve and contribute in the workplace in other ways.

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midasz 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's genuinely hilarious how the same leadership pushing for RTO because getting people together creates magic, seems to have no issues trading those same people out for LLM's churning at specs.

	▲	maxrev17 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Haha nail on head so the motive for ‘get your ass back in the office’ was never the motive we all heard

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SimianSci 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Respectfully, After a certain level of compensation, you are indeed judged purely off of input and output. Workplace improvement does not justify your salary.

You will also find that many problems in the harder sciences do not get easier by throwing more bodies at them. Comments like these remind me that some project managers think they'd be able to delivery a baby in 1 month if they simply had 9 women.

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oarsinsync 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Respectfully, After a certain level of compensation, you are indeed judged purely off of input and output. Workplace improvement does not justify your salary.

I'd have to disagree. There's a narrow band in the middle where that's true, but once you exceed that, your personal inputs and outputs matter less and less, and the contributions you make to the overall workplace, and how well you enable those around you, make a larger part of why you're compensated.

Even as an IC, the more you're able to mentor and elevate the people around you, the more your compensation will grow (if you're in the right place, and thus already at the right earnings bracket)

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paganel 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> you are indeed judged purely off of input and output

That's not how successful (software, in this case) teams are made.

	▲	SimianSci 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I would agree if the team im on were still growing/scaling. However we are well past our scaling phase, and at this point our concern is maintaining multi-million dollar contracts with a tight well-compensated team.