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Is AI Turning Coders Into Bystanders in Their Own Jobs?


AI's downside for software engineers for now seems to be a change in the quality of their work," reports the New York Times. "Some say it is becoming more routine, less thoughtful and, crucially, much faster paced... The new approach to coding at many companies has, in effect, eliminated much of th...

It has even encouraged coders to gin up new AI productivity tools at an upcoming hackathon, an internal coding competition. Google recently told employees that it would soon hold a companywide hackathon in which one category would be creating AI tools that could "enhance their overall daily productivity," according to an internal announcement. At Amazon and other companies, managers argue that AI can relieve employees of tedious tasks and enable them to perform more interesting work.

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