<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>We did. We&amp;#x27;ll probably post something tomorrow. Everyone we let go was doing great work. Everyone got 4 months of severance. The cuts were primarily to business units in a reconfiguration of the company (people working in devrel and growth were disproportionately affected; core engineering generally not). The idea is to double down on what&amp;#x27;s working with the business and put out past 2026 the need to consider funding.&lt;p&gt;What we didn&amp;#x27;t want to do was write a fluffy post about this and pull focus from the people we let go.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Layoffs at Fly.io</title><url>https://twitter.com/bradgessler/status/1831020600841875887</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alberth</author><text>&amp;gt; Recently I was part of a full-stack lay-off of about 40 people, from &lt;i&gt;founders&lt;/i&gt; to staff.&lt;p&gt;Founders got laid off?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Layoffs at Fly.io</title><url>https://twitter.com/bradgessler/status/1831020600841875887</url></story>