Work is freezing hiring and upping spending on tokens for everyone.

Don't know if this is effective and I don't think management knows either, but it's what they're doing

> Work is freezing hiring and upping spending on tokens for everyone.

Doesn't mean the two are related.

Is AI just the excuse? We've got tariffs, war, uncertainty and other drama non stop.

It's what they're telling us

Of course they are.

Management often has a perverse short-term incentive to make labor feel insecure. It’s a quick way to make people feel insecure and work harder ... for a while.

Also, “AI makes us more productive so we can cut our labor costs” sounds so much better to investors than some variation of “layoffs because we fucked up / business is down / etc”

You should look into the concepts of skepticism, materialism, and cynicism. Maybe don't trust the leadership of where you work, the leadership that sees you as a number and not a human.

The Gervais Principle entirely rewrote how I view workplaces. In fact, the model is fitting even more accurately as society grows more fractious.

Which story sends a more positive signal to shareholders?

"We've frozen hiring because our growth potential is tapped out."

"We've frozen hiring because AI can replace employees."

Do you believe everything management tells you, whether you’re internal or external?

>Is AI just the excuse?

When you're unemployed, it doesn't matter. When executives cargo cult, it doesn't matter.

If everyone was 10x productive then we would have had native Claude Code app for each platform.

Instead they are using Electron and calling it a day. Very ironic isn't it? If AI is so good then why don't we get native software from Anthropic?

Shift from quality to velocity started not yesterday but AI only accelerated this shift. Majority of comments here tell how fast Claude can generate code, not how good the result is. Electron is the prefect fit for move fast mindset. It is likely that Claude developers don’t see electron as problem at all.

I understand why they used Electron. But since AI is so amazing they should be using Claude to generate super optimized native software! They do claim that Claude is better than humans and AI is replacing programmers any day now.

So why aren't they using their own software to generate a linux optimized package for linux, a Swift software for MacOS and whatever windows uses.

That would be the best ad for AI. See, we use our own product!

But it doesn't happen.

So essentially by not generating custom binaries for every platform and using Electron they're doing one thing but saying something else. So maybe generating code isn't the #1 problem in the world!

Also I remember them saying that their engg write less code and they use Claude to write Claude. If Claude can be used to write Claude then why not use Claude to write OS specific binaries?!

GenAI currently has substantially more training from web tech than native.

Yes, that's there. But look at the marketing. They don't market for webdevs, do they?

I'd be curious to see the shift in numbers since December, 2025.