Wishful thinking. Lol. It’s GPu related

compaction actually reduces GPU usage?

Stripe's billions of dollars per year would suggest otherwise.

https://stripe.com/sessions/2025/scaling-vertical-saas

Stripe sells shovels though.

Not their revenue. The revenue of their saas clients. Read the article.

People will move to selfhosted for a while, find out it's more expensive to maintain, switch to SaaS and then a couple years later will switch back to selfhosted. It's an endless cycle

Nah you don’t get it.

What would gurus advise to do?

I am so appreciative of the employment protection laws we have in Europe so I don't have to deal with managers like you.

Yeah but you are paid less than half for a reason

But they get to live in Europe

And Europe is a sh*thole

Most Europeans wouldn't want to live in the USA even if given twice the salary.

Because they are lazy and full of delusion

And you wonder why you're understaffed.

Actually agents allowed me to save on labor. Thanks

You shouldn’t ask developers about this.

You should ask the business owners. They are hiring fewer developers and looking to cut more.