LLMs are putting pressure on junior tech jobs. Learn how to stay ahead.

Despite the title, this article chronicles how GPT is threatening nearly all junior jobs, using legal work as an example. Written by Sourcegraph, which makes a FOSS version of GitHub Copilot.

  • dandi8@fedia.io
    81·
    14 days ago

    Except “mass” is not useful by itself. It’s not a chair factory where more people equals faster delivery, just like 9 women won’t deliver a baby in a month. I wish companies understood this.

    • leisesprecher@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      14 days ago

      You’re oversimplifying things, drastically.

      Corporations don’t have one projects, they have dozens, maybe hundreds. And those projects need staffing.

      It’s not a chair factory where more people equals faster delivery

      And that’s the core of your folly - latency versus throughput. Yes, putting 10 new devs in a project won’t increase speed magically. But 200 developers can get 20 projects done, where 10 devs only finish one.