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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by huytersd on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:22PM (#38933785)
They’ll probably give them all chatGPT subscriptions and ask them to deal with it. If that goes well they’ll probably cut the staff in half again.
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by neom on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:36PM (#38933942)
Not an engineer so I'm curious... Is this actually a thing that's happening in Eng orgs these days?
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by sneed_chucker on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:47PM (#38934058)
Can't speak for other places, but at Meta everyone effectively has a free GPT4 subscription.
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by huytersd on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:57PM (#38934142)
If you’re an eng and not using ChatGPT/copilot you’re going to get left behind pretty soon.
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by golly_ned on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:23PM (#38934397)
It's unsettling how many times GPT 4.5 has been wrong about something that I can easily see and point out and often verify by finding documentation or testing. I don't know how many times I've asked a question and told the wrong thing.
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:37PM (#38934534)
> It's unsettling how many times GPT 4.5 has been wrong

There is no GPT-4.5. Current OpenAI GPT models include various date and context-size checkpoints of 3.5-turbo, 4, and (in preview) 4-turbo.

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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by huytersd on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @09:59PM (#38935603)
That’s too bad for you. I’d say for general corporate development, the output is directly usable 90%+ of the time.
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by password54321 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:39PM (#38943604)
Sure, if you are doing unoriginal low quality work.
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by paulryanrogers on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:26PM (#38933832)
Or dogfood their Amazon Q AI
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