I've worked at far more companies with miles of product idea backlog we never get to than ones with nothing for engineering to do.
Now product will be able to use an LLM to come up with feature proposals and design docs even faster! :o
So: are you working at a company where engineering is a cost center or a revenue center? The latter wants to get more done at the same cost much more than it wants to just cut spend.
I'm working at a company where we perpetually don't have enough engineers and we've learned (the hard way) that adding more tends to make the problem worse (too many cooks).
Copilot helps a lot with that. I can write `// check if em` and it will finish the comment (email is valid) and write the actual check.
It's a massive productivity boost. I'm spending less time looking stuff up (what was that function name again?) and less time fixing typos/basic syntax errors.
Copilot doesn't always know the function name, but it does more often than me. And it makes errors too, but again less often than me (also, because I'm reading the code, not typing it, I tend to see the error immediately without needing to test it).
Now product will be able to use an LLM to come up with feature proposals and design docs even faster! :o
So: are you working at a company where engineering is a cost center or a revenue center? The latter wants to get more done at the same cost much more than it wants to just cut spend.