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1. I saw the same headline - the article stated that there were record SEASON sales, not Black Friday sales. The headline did not match the content of the article. 2. Record revenue, not necessarily record units sold. To be expected with inflation. 3. Savvy online shoppers may be bundling purchases to reduce shipping costs. Waiting for a seasonal sale to buy holiday gifts as well as detergent, snacks and underwear may be quite prudent.
Finally, increased sales revenue does not necessarily equate to more jobs. It can, but by no means does it have to.
Isn't their tech to address that, like golang's "singleflight"?
I'd be very surprised if virtually every RDBMS doesn't do this already.
Is this a normal/expected requirement in modern GO?
No idea what's going on here.
I found a work-around (see other comment)
No idea what happened there... I have a valid/paid account, no browser extensions... strange stuff.
What I'd really be concerned about would be our modern society. Purchasing food, water, fuel, clothes and other necessities would be near impossible. Supply chains would not just have problems, but literally fall apart. Money would stop moving.
If anything is "too big to fail" it would be the internet.
* You know exactly what your app needs to do, up-front
But isn't this true of any database? Generally, adding a new index to a 50 million row table is a pain in most RDBs. As is adding a column, or in some cases, even deleting an index. These operations usually incur downtime, or some tricky table duplication with migration process that is rather compute + I/O intensive... and risky.
I don't think we'll see much of an impact of LLM-generated code until these systems are trained on the code and the existing user and dev documentation of the project itself.
As for jr. engineer impact and prospective candidates, I'd say virtually zero.
Since we can't control the latter, it only seems prudent to do something about the former.
However, the more specificity required (math, programming, engineering in general) the more challenging it is to apply AI... at least for now.