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?

  • WastedJobe
    5•5 months ago

    It doesn’t need to be right to make money, often more money than companies get by paying people to do a job properly.

    • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
      15•5 months ago

      … Yes, it does in the tech sector. If you’re wrong it doesn’t work.

      I’ve tried the tools out. You go from writing code for an hour and debugging for half an hour to writing code for 15 minutes and debugging for three hours.

      Half the time you’ve ripped out literally every bit of code the AI wrote by the time you’re done making it work.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
        3•5 months ago

        Get better at the prompts you use. My entire team uses it daily, and it has made us probably 600% more effective. Learning to prompt AI is a valuable skill right now.

        • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
          9•5 months ago

          Oh, I know how to prompt AI. Getting it to spit out workable code doesn’t mean you don’t have to review the code, or make sure it’s integrated correctly.
          You also have to make sure it’s not generating blatantly braindead code, which makes the review and debugging cycle take longer.

          I remain unconvinced that it’s suitable for domains where there is a right and wrong answer, like engineering or law.

          I’ve found more value in the systems that do a good job understanding the problem description and then returning references to documentation and prior art on techniques, as opposed to the actual code.
          I don’t need a virtual junior dev I need to hand hold, I actually have those and mine get better. I want a virtual “person who worked on something like this once and knows the links to the good articles”.