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What's with all the tech layoffs? (infosec.pub)

submitted 10 months ago by HanDman@infosec.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] colonial@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A large language model has no concept of good or bad, and it has no logic.

Tragically, this seems to be the minority viewpoint - at least among CS students. A lot of my peers seem to have convinced themselves that the hallucination machines are intelligent... even when it vomits unsound garbage into their lap.

This is made worse by the fact that most of our work is simple and/or derivative enough for $MODEL to usually give the right answer, which reinforces the majority "thinking machine" viewpoint - while in reality, generating an implementation of & using only ~ and | is hardly an Earth-shattering accomplishment.

And yes, it screws them academically. It doesn't take a genius to connect the dots when the professor who encourages Copilot use has a sub-50% test average.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

In my experience copilot for neovim is pretty useful if you

Split the current window if you have anything like type declarations in a separate file
Write a pretty verbose documentation, e.g. using Swagger.

If you expect it to whip out of thin air what you really need and not have you correct it in several places, learn to code without it first.