I dont mean this as a shade but ppl who are not coders now seem to think "coding is now solved" and seem to be pushing absurd ideas like shipping software with slack messages. These ppl are often high up in the chain and have never done serious coding.

Stripe is apparently pushing gazzaliion prs now from slack but their feature velocity has not changed. so what gives?

how is that number of pr is now the primary metric of productivity and no one cares about what is being shipped or if we are shipping product faster. Its total madness right now. Everyone has lost their collective minds.