After announcing a layoff, CrowdStrike CEO wrote in the letter to employees that:
AI has always been foundational to how we operate. AI flattens our hiring curve, and helps us innovate from idea to product faster. It streamlines go-to-market, improves customer outcomes, and drives efficiencies across both the front and back office. AI is a force multiplier throughout the business.
As being witnessed across the tech industry, the ongoing revolution of AI has dramatically improved the efficiency of developing software solutions and, at the same time, unfortunately reduced the needs of software engineers.
With more and more code automated, I can imagine that tech companies will cut more head counts while speeding up deliveries. This will significantly improve their GAAP profitability.
This is a great time to invest in tech companies, though, it is also unfortunately a bad time to be a software engineer.
Cheers,
Luffy
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Let me just say something about AI…I’m a screenwriter and I use Claude to research stuff for my script. It is extraordinary. I also can upload an entire script and have it give me the best notes I’ve ever had. I grew up when there were rotary phones so I’ve lived through all the tech advances and, I have to say, AI is the most remarkable and I see no limits to what it can do. It will (and already is) radically alter how every business operates…until it becomes aware like Skynet and gets rid of us obsolete humans.
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This is a bit OT indeed, but I did want to chime in; as someone who works in the field, and has a company that builds AI solutions, I would advise against thinking that it will be bad for software engineers.
That’s not the case. Like any other technology revolution, it is bad for people who were doing work that could be easily automated. The hard part of most software engineers jobs is not necessarly writing the code in itself, but the way they approach a certain problem. That’s is true as well for a screenwriter.
What GenAI is doing (it’s important to distinguish between GenAI and more traditional applications like Machine learning, that still have enormous value), and will continue to do, is increase the value of critical thinking, while decreasing the value of generating.
To FallingWallenda, I can tell you AI has LOTS of limits right now. How long will they stay, nobody knows, even people making the models that are so hyped about now. If you build enough system, and use it enough, you will see many of these limits come up. If you use it for tasks that are trivial at the current time (which is the case for most people), then it really feels like magic. It’s one of my favorite feeling, showing new stuff or R&D projects we make to my parents and watch them in awe. But it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have many issues, and that people are right now making decisions they will regret because they did not use enough critical thinking 
That’s a lot for an OT post, happy to chat about this more offline (I am not a engineer myself, but work with many, and my co-founder is an AI/ML architect).
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Does Claude provide creative notes, like plot points, character arc, and dialogue?
Everything. HOWEVER, the best use of it isn’t writing for you, but researching. I had it build me a secure communication platform for a cult that can’t be hacked. It may have invented something that doesn’t exist and would work. It was jaw droppingly incredible. I ask a lot of questions about businesses that I only know a little about but might be key to a character’s arc and I ask “Is this plausible” and it helps me make it so. Absolutely jaw dropping. And it’s like talking to the smartest reader without an agenda.
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Cool! So, it helps create something you ask for, based on what’s out there, like a researcher who collabs with your creativity? Is it different from ChatGPT or other AI? (Asking for a screenwriter I know.)