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That was my thought too. The outsourcing teams that aid in development require specifications and documentation. "Code factories" feels like a target for LLM-re
by Torkel 4y ago
That was my thought too. The outsourcing teams that aid in development require specifications and documentation. "Code factories" feels like a target for LLM-replacement.
Perhaps there's a startup idea here: identify the way communication is done with these teams (PRDs? I have no idea...), and create a service that takes that as input and creates results using LLM? There for sure should be room for fine-tuning models for it, as well as learning to have the LLMs create and run tests for all the code, according to requirements/specs.
- truthsayer123 4y agoInteresting observation. Is FAANG laying off employees in Sweden as well? Do you think most of the Swedish engineers working for FAANG would be replaced by GPT4 soon? Are you planning of doing it in your startup as well? Should the employees be worried?
- Torkel 4y agoLong term we should all be worried. Or hopeful? It is unclear to me if it is a blessing or a curse to have what one loves doing revolutionized... I am actually leaning towards blessing. At least if the goal of programming is passion for building. And this gets to your other point: if what a programmer does is direct implementation of requirements, in a mechanical fashion, without any consideration other than passing some requirements set off in a PRD... then yes, I would replace that. We have discussed this internally, and the way we work an LLM will be a tool not a replacement. So our employees are safe. For now. As for FAANG layoffs - I think it is happening all over, but also that it is overreported. The graph of hires over the past few years should be references whenever number of people layed off is mentioned. Over the past 1-2 years I think the tech giants are way up in head count.
- spaceman_2020 4y agoI'm generally baffled by the obliviousness of so many people I know who work in the IT industry and are either unaware of GPT or have only used it a couple of times as a toy. So many of these folks fill up seats in code factories or do glorified data entry. I don't think the world is ready for what's coming.
- exploderate 4y agoLLMs are probably better at generating specifications than writing code.
- thallium205 4y agoThere are outsourcing firms whose sole job is to create unit tests. If there is one feature these LLMs do well right now, today, it is generating unit tests well. QA engineers in general were already treading on thin ice.
- manojlds 4y agoThis is not a outsourcing team in the current context.