New comment by edmiller287 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

edmiller287 — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:12:49 +0000

> Like the adage of how unwise it is to fire custodians just because you never see a mess and therefore you never actually see the custodians do anything, it may be "unwise" to lose the presence of these 300k/yr engineers just because they somehow actually keep things going smoothly.

so you should keep people on pay-roll because they "might actually be doing something if you look hard enough" ...? don't think so

> People who experienced these cultures may be waiting for private conversations

the error is the "waiting" - if you have a problem it is your responsibility to do something about it

New comment by edmiller287 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

edmiller287 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:12:26 +0000

> designing clever code and over-engineering things that weren’t needed

I agree with keeping sync'd with your devs but these sorts of behaviours should be caught and corrected in code review

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New comment by edmiller287 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

New comment by edmiller287 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"