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Re:Ask HN: What will become possible by 2025 in your field o... by hanniabu on Sunday November 17, 2019 @07:25PM (#21561034)
> bots that effectively replaced over 1,000 FTE's and saved the company close to $3 million

This doesn't add up. You're saying each full time employee earns on average $1k/year?

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Re:Ask HN: What will become possible by 2025 in your field o... by kosmos1337 on Monday November 18, 2019 @01:57AM (#21562429)
Maybe the first year's savings were offset by the high cost of developing the automation?
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Re:Ask HN: What will become possible by 2025 in your field o... by at-fates-hands on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:06AM (#21565378)
$3 million after overhead, development time and maintenance has been subtracted.
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