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With increases in productivity from systems like this, and a guaranteed bottom line improvement from cutting labor and running leaner teams, has anyone here hea
by digdugdirk 4y ago
With increases in productivity from systems like this, and a guaranteed bottom line improvement from cutting labor and running leaner teams, has anyone here heard of any large corporations using LLM's as an excuse for headcount reduction yet?
In all honesty, I wouldn't be surprised if this has already played a large behind the scenes role in the layoffs at Google/Microsoft.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoEveryone I know is understaffed. I think the outcome is roadmaps deliver more reliably not reduce headcount.
- moneywoes 4y agoSeems strange with all the layoffs
- fnordpiglet 4y agoThat’s companies preparing for the artificial recession the fed is launching us into to ensure Twinkie’s don’t cost $0.05 more.
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoSometimes thinking that you are understaffed is actually caused by being overstaffed. The reason is that having a lot of people introduces tons of overheads and coordination costs, that reduce your time for your main work.
- symlinkk 4y agoLol the cope here is unbelievable. Let me guess, the people that are “just overhead” and “reduces time for main work” are everyone else, not you, right?
- shmatt 4y agoI work at a big tech company and there is a complete ban on coding using LLMs. The fear is sending our code for the model to learn in the future. This is also why then hype around GTP4-powered Office is overhyped. Very rarely will a corporation be OK with GPT-4 running inferences on their internal documents and excel sheets Until an on-prem solution is offered, many of these companies won't get anything out of the technology The layoffs at big tech are caused by un-even profit generating, Where 5% or 20% of the company generate 99.9% of income. The rest are essentially startups being funded by rich VCs. Eventually if you don't find PMF the VC cuts the funding
- walthamstow 4y ago> Very rarely will a corporation be OK with GPT-4 running inferences on their internal documents and excel sheets Aren't they already doing this, if your documents are in Sharepoint or Google Drive? I have assumed so, but with no basis
- maeil 4y agoFor big companies, that on-prem solution is coming sooner rather than later. For small companies, plenty of them (likely the large majority) will be very willing to take the "risk" for the save in labour costs.
- blackbear_ 4y ago> Very rarely will a corporation be OK with GPT-4 running inferences on their internal documents and excel sheets. Which is why Microsoft will be able to charge outrageous fees for enterprise plans that keep employees' queries to GPT private and out of future training sets. I do not think on prem will be successful, though, the hardware requirements are fairly substantial and specialized.
- dougmwne 4y agoHow do you reconcile what you just said with the massive popularity of cloud services? The source code is already sitting in the same data center the LLM GPUs are sitting in. Of course there are some businesses too paranoid to use the cloud, but even intelligence agencies are on board these days.
- jstx1 4y agoIn general demand for programmers has been growing over the long term. So if the baseline is an upward trend, these tools can have a demand-reducing effect and the overall demand can still be going up just at a lesser rate. Or it could be flat or go down - my point is that one thing reducing demand doesn't necessarily mean that demand is going down.
- manicennui 4y agoIf your job is nothing but writing the kind of boilerplate code that Copilot gets somewhat right, you probably should lose your job.