[Torkel]

Long 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.