AI is not replacing engineers but rather reshaping who else gets hired. New data from SignalFire shows that software engineers make up 55% of hiring at top tech companies, up from 46% in 2019, even as overall hiring remains below pre-pandemic levels. Other roles are shrinking more quickly. While engineering hiring is down 11% since
Perplexity could be the latest entrant in the hot AI coding wars. The San Francisco-based AI search startup has created an internal AI coding tool that it may release publicly later, a person familiar with the matter said. For now, Perplexity has dubbed the tool “Teammate” and its engineers have been using it since May,
