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Data > Hype

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There is a ton of hype now about using GenAI for various tasks, especially for technical workers. There are lots of executives who would like to use AI to reduce their cost of labor, whether that's getting more out of their existing staff or perhaps even reducing staff. Salesforce famously noted they weren't hiring software engineers in 2025. I'm not sure they let engineers go, but it seems they did let support people go.

For many technical people, we know the hype of a GenAI agent writing code is just that: hype. The agents can't do the same job that humans do, at least not for some humans. We still need humans to prompt the AIs, make decisions, and maybe most importantly, stop the agents when they're off track. I'm not sure anyone other than a trained software engineer can do that well.

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There is a ton of hype now about using GenAI for various tasks, especially for technical workers. There are lots of executives who would like to use AI to reduce their cost of labor, whether that's getting more out of their existing staff or perhaps even reducing staff. Salesforce famously noted they weren't hiring software engineers in 2025. I'm not sure they let engineers go, but it seems they did let support people go.

For many technical people, we know the hype of a GenAI agent writing code is just that: hype. The agents can't do the same job that humans do, at least not for some humans. We still need humans to prompt the AIs, make decisions, and maybe most importantly, stop the agents when they're off track. I'm not sure anyone other than a trained software engineer can do that well.

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