Engineer's postmortem: how Fable shaped a layoff decision

On October 12 a laid-off engineer's postmortem hit the Hacker News front page. He says Fable cost less than his salary, which convinced management the company could keep running until an acquisition and led to his role being cut. He argues frontier models still lack a senior engineer's product judgment and sense of long-term consequences, but they already shape how companies allocate headcount spending. The post also says that with experienced developer oversight, a carefully designed harness and measurable checkpoints, models can now reproduce and migrate existing software behavior step by step.

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