• kescusay@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Headline in six months: Salesforce Hires Software Engineers After Realizing Middle Managers Don’t Know How To Turn AI-Generated Code Into Actual Applications

    Being a software engineer is a hell of a lot more than just the actual act of writing code.

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      9 hours ago

      Knowing companies, they won’t realise anything and will just make their existing employees pick up the slack

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      20 hours ago

      Maybe if we’d put LLM powered puppets in the meetings with management so developers can just continue with their actual work we’d get a lot more done.

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        19 hours ago

        I think that should be tried first. I really think Ai could replace them! (Especially CEOs)

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          The cost savings will be immense, productivity and innovation will no longer be impaired by incapable self centred arseholes playing political games, … I can see that working.

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      Also the amount of management that doesn’t understand the difference between coders, programmers, and engineers. All quite different in scope and all completely necessary for at-scale production.