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A common sentiment from hiring managers is that where they previously needed ten engineers, they now only need “two skilled engineers and one of these LLM-based agents,” which can be just as productive, said Nenad Medvidović, a computer science professor at the University of Southern California.

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a team staffed with ten engineers much less replaced by two seniors and a chatbot, where are these stories coming from?

>> where are these stories coming from?

Nowhere. This is the economy going into recession and companies pretending its AI so their share price does not collapse.