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As ChatGPT-like generative AI changes how code is written, companies are rethinking how many programmers they need.
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The Economist
Lucas Beyer is not a celebrity. But in Silicon Valley’s rarefied world of machine-learning talent, he is seen as one.
A former researcher at OpenAI, Mr Beyer announced in June that he was leaving the artificial intelligence (AI) lab behind ChatGPT to join Meta, a social media giant with big AI ambitions of its own. With rumours swirling that Mr Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s boss, was offering packages worth US$100 million (S$127 million) to poach AI whizzes, Mr Beyer clarified that he had not secured a nine-figure deal. That he needed to say so at all reflects the extent of the frenzy.
