I think a lot of these companies let go of team leads and just decided they could do without. They had the biggest salaries and likely no respect from the higher ups. In my experience with big projects this position is extremely important because it keeps the team on task and they are able to coordinate with other team leads. If you just have a handful of junior employees, they may be doing work, but it’s not actually moving the project forward. Often time these leads are still doing code review or even writing code (or the equivalent work product in their division), so it’s not like they’re just in meetings all day. They actually know and do the work, but they’re able to keep the group organized. I’m guessing those are the positions they’re rehiring.

The hyperlinked article in that section goes into a little more detail, but I’m guessing based off what I’ve been hearing from the industry.

Why are we writing articles on what the biggest megacorps are doing with the technology? Meta is one of the most braindead corporations I’ve ever seen, wasting billions and billions of dollars on failed tech after failed tech. Microsoft can’t stop pushing their shitty Copilot, which isn’t even on anybody’s LLM radar. Anything Elon Musk leads consistently makes dumbass decisions that scare us all.

If anything, it just shows how stupid these megacorps are.

Copilot isn’t an LLM, it’s a tool to use LLMs and Generative AI. It’s very useful when people with no understanding of a topic speak vehemently about it because they can be tagged and easily ignored on other topics too.

Actually, the model itself is called Prometheus, but Microsoft has slapped their Copilot label on so many things that it’s hard to know what they are talking about.