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Re:Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, ... by javawizard on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @09:09PM (#42640866)
I'll say as an ex-FAANG that recently released a similar stat that it was absolutely real, but only because doing anything required an atrocious amount of boilerplate that AI was really good at figuring out.

Compared to how productive I am at my current startup? Not a chance.

Re:Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, ... by namaria on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:24AM (#42643059)
Well put. LLMs seem great in environments full of the cruft LLMs are trained on. Seems obvious but I hadn't put it together. Thanks for the insight.