The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Organizations Are Flying Blind - Viktor Cessankept by eddie • apr 14Software teams costing €130k per engineer per year must generate 3–5× that to be viable, yet most lack financial visibility, a condition now exposed by AI.AboutLeah Tharin · Nathan Cavaglione · LLMs · SlackFiled#ai#business-strategy#economics#productivity#software-engineeringRelatedYou’re Not Taking On Enough Tech DebtBecause LLMs drastically lower the cost of cleaning up messy code, engineers should take more intentional technical debt now and trust future models to service it.also on LLMs, #business-strategy, #software-engineering, #productivityLLMs and performative productivity - Josh Collinsworth blogLLMs often create the illusion of productivity while actually reducing real output through cognitive debt, maintenance overhead, and misaligned incentives.also on LLMs, #software-engineering, #productivity, #aiSaaS, widely misunderstood ($CSU.TO, $TOI.V, $ADBE, $UBER, $CRM)SaaS remains economically superior to internal AI-built alternatives, making AI an accelerant rather than a disruptor for established software companies.also on Slack, #economics, #business-strategy, #software-engineering, #ai
The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Organizations Are Flying Blind - Viktor Cessan