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afavourtoday at 4:02 PM1 replyview on HN

> Even if Uber really did double developer productivity, would it translate to quarterly results?

It would if it meant they then fired half their software engineers, which is the ultimate goal.


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returnInfinitytoday at 7:32 PM

Even if they lower costs to 0, it means nothing

Topline growth matters more than costs.

Mathematically - There is no limit to topline growth But cost cutting has a ceiling, which is the current costs.

You can only make(save) so much money with cost cutting

Topline growth is upper bound by total energy in the universe though.

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