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A new Stanford University study suggests that the number of entry-level programming jobs in the U.S. has declined significantly since the launch of ChatGPT. The paper was published today by three ...

In semiconductor design, “signoff” is often treated as a single milestone. In practice, however, it encompasses distinct verification phases with unique objectives. Functional signoff and RTL signoff ...

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used by software engineers for code generation. However, limitations of LLMs such as irrelevant or incorrect code have highlighted the need for ...

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In early 2023, Matt Welsh wrote an opinion piece in Communications of the ACM that described programmers as dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit. Welsh, now director of AI Systems at Palantir ...

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Computer-programming employment fell steeply after the introduction of ChatGPT and has returned to its lowest level since 1980. Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level ...

Aseem Rastogi, Principal Researcher, and Pantazis Deligiannis, Principal Research Engineer from Microsoft Research FoSSE (Future of Scalable Software Engineering) discuss the technical results from ...