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 Please beat this idea up but I have yet to see a significant impact as an CS engineer from AI, it's cool and helps me get some ideas down but I think many of these companies canning people thinking that they'll just hook up a bunch of LLM models to each other and it will magically make their systems work with less body count are going to realize they are now strapped for real bodies that can solve the problems. 
 Yeah. It’s hard to tell. I am using a tool called aider and it is like having an extra pair of eyes and hands. It does not write perfect code, but can bootstrap ideas and even does git commits, scrapes web pages as needed, offers to npm install or pip install or other cli activity. Pretty wild. 
 Damn it, I should have been a plumber.