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4 months agoStaff Engineer here. Our CTO told us in March two things. One, if we didn’t get on board with AI then we would be unemployable in 3 months and two, we had to use AI for everything. Literally everything. I asked (as a senior engineer of 19 years) if that included simple bug fixes I see that take minutes vs 30+ describing the problem. The answer was “absolutely”. Our budget is $400K /month to Anthropic and we exceeded that 3 weeks into May
Update on this: those people who didn’t incorporate it into their workflow have been let go. Last night they released 1/6th of the staff.

In my area right now you cannot rent an apartment unless you show proof you have income 3x rent. So that 1200 apartment wouldn’t be possible because they make less than 3600