Memo: Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell says junior and mid-level engineers now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted code changes, after outages
Memo: Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell says junior and mid-level engineers now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted code changes, after outages
Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’ — Amazon's ecommerce business …
METR study: experienced open-source developers using Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools were 19% slower to complete tasks, despite thinking they were 20% faster
Devs estimated time saved with AI before & after each task, while screen recording to measured real-world AI productivity gains. @shimminykricket : A randomized controlled study found that Gen AI actu...
Comprehensive.io: average salaries for senior engineers who specialize in AI and ML are 12% higher than for those who do not; AI-related salaries are up 4% YoY
That doesn't mean tech sn't a maturing sector, and that the halcyon days of $600k packages to 20-somethings aren't over, because they mostly are. … Tweets: Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : AI related sa...
Source: following Amazon's acquisition, two of Zoox's earliest and most senior engineers have left for Waymo
All is not well following Amazon's $1 billion-plus acquisition of self-driving car developer Zoox. Two of its earliest and most senior engineers—James Philbin and Marc Wimmershoff …
Brokerage firms say tech firms are helping fuel increased office space demand in smaller European capitals as well as cities like Edinburgh and Kraków
Shefali Anand / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @burghdiaspora and @nnovick Tweets: James M. Russell / @burghdiaspora : Convergence, not divergence: “New Tech Centers Sprout in Europe...Lisbon, Kraków,...
Inside the world of Silicon Valley's ‘coasters’ — the millionaire engineers who get paid gobs of money and barely work
The least-secret secret in the Valley is called “resters and vesters,” or “coasters” - which refers to engineers who get paid big bucks without doing too much work, waiting for their stock to vest. Tw...