Lolnerdz wrote:
I work at a very large tech company. When someone joins my team, it takes 3-6 months for someone to build up enough historical and organizational knowledge to start making an impact. Even then, it can take another 1-2 years to fully make an impact. The current LLMs are strong but they will never have enough context to do that. There is only so much you can fit into a context window and, to replace us, you'd need to fit orders of magnitude more in there.
That being said, AI makes some tasks a lot faster. So, maybe you need 1 or 2 fewer engineers on a 12 person team. Thats hardly enough to make a dent in the industry. Economic downturns have a much larger impact on job security.
Thanks for clearing that up for us all. Whew… that was a close call!!! We can all relax now.