I am vaguely uneasy with the thought that undirected random generators (or pattern marchers) can adequately fill current jobs. If true, it should give a whole lot of people pause re career choices. Automated infinite monkeys at keyboards?

Is there really nothing novel being done? If not, that little secret will put a knife in funding,

> There are potentially massive improvements in productivity in the pipeline (ChatGPT/Lambda/Copilot), which might reduce headcount requirements.

I’m not sure this hypothesis makes any sense. The bulk of all development work is fixing bugs and adding features to existing code, and in the process refactor code. How would automatic code generators help in that?