hmmm, so its one of those location refactors (quite sad, but classic large-company stuff).
I've generally found that Foundation / Core language engineers are pretty hard to replace or be fungible — they have deep knowledge about complex code and social dynamics that are hard to
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MLE Mishires: Need Diverse AIE Skills and Management
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lots of MLE mishires when really a bunch of differently skilled and managed AIEs should do
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Google Lays Off Entire Python Foundations Team
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apparently Google laid off their entire Python Foundations team, WTF!
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Chinese AI Model Rivals GPT-4 Turbo; New Tools and Jobs
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Top stories in AI today: -Chinese AI model bests GPT-4 Turbo
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Self-Employment Job Security in the Age of AI
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I'm self-employed so my job security is pretty much rock solid!
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Beyond Code: The Real Work in Software Development
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Yeah, I'd feel threatened if the only thing I did was type code based on detailed requirements someone else creates – but typing code into an editor is only about 15% of my work building software
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Engineering Managers Coding Again with LLM Assistance
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I've talked to a few people who switched to engineering management roles years ago and are finding they can churn out little bits of working code again now because with LLM-assistance they can get something productive done in the much smaller amounts of available time they have
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Misunderstanding What Software Developers Actually Do
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I'm pretty sure the people who were pushing that narrative didn't really understand what software developers actually do