Every day there’s more big job cuts at tech and games companies. I’ve not seen anything explaining why they all seam to be at once like this. Is it coincidence or is there something driving all the job cuts?
I'm pretty excited about LLMs being force multipliers in our industry. GitHub's Copilot has been pretty useful (at times). If I'm writing a little utility function and basically just write out the function signature, it'll fill out the meat. Often makes little mistakes, but I just need to follow up with little tweaks and tests (that it'll also often write).
It also seems to take context of my overall work at the time somehow and infers what I'll do next occasionally, to my astonishment.
It's absolutely not replacing me any time soon, but it sure can be helpful in saving me time and hassle.