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Re:95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI ... by empath75 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @01:05PM (#44975248)
> Replace junior developers with Claude Code or similar.

I don't know why everyone goes to "replacing". Were a bunch of computer programmers replaced when compilers came out that made writing machine code a lot easier? Of course not, they were more productive and accomplished a lot more, which made them more valuable, not less.

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Re:95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI ... by LPisGood on Thursday August 21, 2025 @01:18PM (#44975442)
A lot of companies have upper limits on the value add of more programmers.
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