Climate tech brings jobs to rural communities | Former Spaceflight CEO joins law firm

Seattle startup Humanly just raised $12 million to help companies automate recruiting functions. Humanly CEO Prem Kumar, winner of the Startup CEO of the Year honor at the GeekWire Awards last month, said the company is investing in new generative AI tools. Read the story. 

Will companies need fewer engineers with the proliferation of AI coding tools? No, says Box CEO Aaron Levie. “Almost every company on the planet has vastly more software it would like to build than people it has to build that software,” he tweeted this morning. We talked to engineering leaders in the Seattle area about how they’re using generative AI in software development. Read their insights. 

Spaceflight Inc.’s former CEO, Curt Blake, is joining the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati at a time when the law firm is launching an industry group to focus on the needs of emerging space ventures. Read more. 

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