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What do you mean "no operational impact"? How did you measure that? People on this site are constantly complaining how horrible the Google services became.
Over the last 3+X years, not suddenly after 1-2 years of layoffs. I can bet that if you bring Google Reader up, you'll get a lot more complaining - than any "horrible Google services" topic.
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What do you mean "no operational impact"? How did you measure that? People on this site are constantly complaining how horrible the Google services became.
Google services became worse in periods when they doubled headcount year over year than when they did layoffs.
This is probably just continued post-COVID demand normalization. Basically all software and gaming got a massive bump that was obviously going to have an unsustainable component to it. But in many cases companies planned like it was totally sustainable and would continue. That’s why even super profitable companies like Microsoft and Epic are doing layoffs in 2023. The other reason of course is that they went a bit cr…
You think the top 10% of workers are getting, at a minimum, a 30% productivity boost? You think they're getting in an extra 1.5 days worth of work a week because they're using Copilot?
They're living in a momentary dream that AI LLM tools will solve all our coding problems. They don't and reality hasn't hit them yet.
I don't know any real seasoned dev who is getting a 30% boost because they installed Co-Pilot. The tools poop out too many errors/fake-garbage to be useful to devs working on battle hardened codebases.
This is probably just continued post-COVID demand normalization. Basically all software and gaming got a massive bump that was obviously going to have an unsustainable component to it. But in many cases companies planned like it was totally sustainable and would continue. That’s why even super profitable companies like Microsoft and Epic are doing layoffs in 2023. The other reason of course is that they went a bit cr…
Is that really how it works? It seems like the biggest gains are actually in the less skilled segment.
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I'd argue that the productivity boost is mich higher for the lower end developers than for the best ones. They are best at the simple tasks in the most verbose programming languages: Easier to think of them as higher quality auto-completion. The terser the language, and more innovative the problem is, the smalle the LLM help. So if anyone gains from this, is the companies paying under-market, and therefore typically…
Maybe this is the answer to a disconnect I've noticed. A number of devs where I work have started using ChatGPT to help with their work, but it hasn't resulted in any noticeable productivity or quality gains. But the devs here are all very experienced senior-level engineers. Perhaps that's why we aren't seeing any gains?
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Idk, ChatGPT has been great boost to my efficiency filling out all those "5 min" pre-review alignment standup meeting intake documents. Now it really DOES just take 5 mins!
Standup meeting intake documents? I think you're doing standups wrong. Do they need a cover sheet as well? Did you get the memo?
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It's actually mind blowing how much money they spend on user acquisition while the thing is still full of bugs! Why does it take ages to open? Why did downloading some games launch another launcher that downloaded the game again? Why did it sometimes not switch to idle when in the background and keep wasting CPU? Why does the UI sometimes just randomly not work? Why is every interaction with it so slow ? Why does it…
It is shockingly slow. If you go to the store tab it freezes up for 20+ seconds, just to show a few small jpegs and some text. It's baffling to see such poor performance from a games company that's used to accomplishing more complicated tasks in less than a 60th of a second.