That is pretty obvious no? You always want to have the smallest team that gets the most done.

True and new learnings are AI first approach and new working style. want to get a pulse of how budgets on tech teams have changed

Founder

Anything that saves time money and effort will be invested into. There’s a difference in expenses and cash outflow. It lies primarily in how invested capital generates returns.

Product Manager

Yes this can be in case of small scale on bigger scale AI  is just intern

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Have met few founders in the last few months they have reduced tech teams to 2030% of original teams and the rest team is mandated to use AI tools to improve efficiency of tech and speed of executi...

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Have met few founders in the last few months they have reduced tech teams to 20-30% of original teams and the rest team is mandated to use AI tools to improve efficiency of tech and speed of execution. The cost of their operations have improved. AI first and assistive approach people are following instead of old tech development ways. 

Happy to hear more such cases and how they are operating. As this is going to be a new way of operating in the near future for companies.

Cost of tech team + product development going down with AI tools

Cost of tech team + product development going down with AI tools- Grapevine

I am seeing a lot of layoff related posts everywhere from news articles to LinkedIn.. Is the Job market really that bad now? Or just the media is projecting that way? 

If it's really bad, which department you think is the most affected? How's layoffs specifically in India? Or is it layoffs in US but more hiring in India due to cost cutting? 

Are layoffs in technology/engineering dept as in for developers or some other departments? Your thoughts please..

Job Market right now in India?

It is really bad right now 
 1. Layoffs in many of the companies, irrespective of whether they're a startup or a big MnC. 
 2. Almost everyone I know of wants to switch, because of no/less appraisals from last 2 years 
 3. Bad work life balance - people thinks switching might help 
 4. Too much competition for any open position. Because of too much supply, companies are low-balling and people would accept the offer.  
  
 Recruiters ghosting is too common. Even if you've killed in your interviews and recruiters get someone who's ready to join on less pay, they'll simply ghost you.

Software Developer

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this government wants to control everything: why are they so insecure ?

Need Govt approval to build AI based tech?

Senior Software Engineer

There is a lot of buzz about AI apps but I wonder if existing startups are thinking deeply about changing business models because of AI or leveraging AI to automate/replace people in some functions?

Are your startups discussing the repercussions of AI to the business ?

Which Indian startups are using GenAI in production at scale and for what ? 

This can be use cases like the whole CX function being replaced by GenAI (or reduced to a fraction), content marketing team reduced alot by using ChatGPT etc. or even engineering reduced.

GenAI Production Usecase India

Technical Director

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So, me and my good friend were casually discussing how crazy the job market is and how we are unable to get into a good job, especially when she has over 3YoE and is really good at frontend web development.

She then casually asked me "Should we be really trying this hard to get into a job that we like, as I feel that AI will take over a big part of the IT workforce in the next 5 years?"

Though we did have a friendly argument, I strongly believe that it still needs more time than that bcz IT jobs, especially we developers, are not just limited to coding. And given the fact that OpenAI is learning off of GitHub repos, which are basically code examples are averagely written code, not well written proficient ones. 

But, in General, what do you think about AI and how it is gradually dominating the IT sector ?

Do you really think AI will take over in the next 5 years ?

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Keep reading news of mass scale layoffs due to AI. Just curious to know. What are companies actually doing with AI? Which products have they built/building, which roles are being replaced, are there are functions or departments which have become redundant?

Do you have first hand knowledge of AI actually replacing someone/something?

What are companies doing with AI

Content Strategist

Why is this happening all of a sudden? Is AI really the reason or something else?
Link to Tweet: https://twitter.com/VicVijayakumar/status/1745623831153127861

Bloodbath everywhere, was Vijay Shekhar right all along?

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Young SWE start with double digit salaries, while someone in Non tech will need 5-10 years to reach that level
Even the business roles, the direct revenue generating roles don't pay good traditionally

Funny how techies think everyone gets paid similar
A lot of it changed with startups trying to acquire talent, but not sustainable
Because the market simply doesn’t pay

How do non tech compete with this skewed demand-supply chain?

Tech and Non tech Pay Partiality is something no one talks about

Engineers deserve their pay.  
  
 1 - The code that engineers write are assets of a company. The code might keep running and serving customers for years after a engineer has probably even left the company.  
 On the other hand, the work that most non-tech folks do are not assets, but an operational expense.  
  
 Companies don't derive benefit of a non-tech even beyond the same month the work is performed.  
  
 The difference is the same as painting your house vs brushing your teeth. You don't paint your house everyday but you do brush your teeth. Painting here is a long lasting asset, adds to the value of the house. Brushing is necessary work but with ultimately perishable benefits.  
  
 2 - Code that engineers write provide non-linear benefits. A team of 30 in Zerodha were able to serve 3-5x more customers in the pandemic. This same scalability does not apply to non-tech majdoori. Business has scaled? Hire more heads. Not with code. 
  
  
 Obviously above does not apply to senior managerial folks who build and architect the organisation, set the cultures, create processes. The impact of their work is long lasting and non-linear. But work of junior business non-tech folks - well, they're getting paid as much as the value they create. Low leverage, low pay. Coding is very high leverage. 
  
 Before you jump on me, I worked for sales in years. Then shifted to product. Above two points are a reality whether you like it or not.

Consultant

Will AI take my job?

5 years back, I was fortunate enough to get into IISc to study computer science. I also had a choice to study at a prestigious business school in India. I decided to go to IISc as I wanted to work in tech post my masters degree. Back then I thought, if I still wanted to go to business school, I would take it up around 5-6 years post masters. 
Now, it seems like AI is taking over all fields especially non-tech strategy type roles where human input can be replaced with effective code+AI in cost effective ways. Functional managerial roles are being filled with experienced engineers who have a great depth of experience building products for their companies. Where will the MBAs fit in? 
With AI advancing at a break neck speed many more roles will be replaced with AI. Also, the MBA curriculum seems a bit stale given the speed our world is advancing. Need some advice.

Will the MBA degree cease to exist in the future?

Data Scientist

Week back there were posts by linkedin engineers that linkedin is hiring SDEs and anyone can as referral and today they laid off 700 people.

Like whats happening man!!! Is the company dumb or what?

LinkedIn Layoffs India

(1) Reduce cost of human capital -> (2) Post better EBITDA numbers in earnings calls -> (3) Get big bonuses and sell your equity if its value is rising -> (4) Hire a lot of people again so that you can repeat this cycle again to profit

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To all the devs (working professionals and students), how much do you rely on ChatGPT for your code? Do you explicitly use it to generate code logic, or only use it for debugging? 

Plus, do you think that the newer generation of students might miss out on the essence of programming with the advent of ChatGPT?

Reliance on ChatGPT

Recently we saw Paytm making layoffs due to AI.
Are there any other companies that did the same?
People whose companies laid off people due to AI. What kind of automations made it possible?
Is AI actually doing the work or is it just an excuse to lay off people?

Layoffs due to AI

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We used to have so many cool concept designs for products, many of them were actually useful, many seemed within the reach of possibility and many even made it to prototypes to be showcased at tech conventions. What has become of them since? Where have these exciting things ended up? Worse part is no one even thinks of cool stuff anymore, a decade ago you could see all these cool renders of "technologically advanced" gadgets online but that seems like a forgotten art these days.

What happened to the future that has become the present?

What is the reason for this? Lack of pay, Lack of cutting edge research?

100% of Engineering Talent for AI leaving India

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Another AI agent designed to replace software engineer

How is your company trying to navigate the issue of AI. Today my boss was shown preview of Gemini which google will publicly launch between October to December and he was mind blown by how far AI has come. I have a friend  working in Amazon, Seattle and his team is working on automating customer support in most of the language which will be public by early next year.   Given computing bottlenecks will be sorted out by Q3 2024, I am expecting tsunami change in how white collar jobs operates. 

What are some good initiatives your team is taking to deal with AI?

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