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Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? by milancurcic on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:49PM (#46506234)
> The industry had reason to be optimistic that 2025 would prove pivotal. In previous years, AI agents like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex had become impressively adept at tackling multi-step computer programming problems.

Both of these agents launched mid-2025.

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Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? by bpavuk on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:50PM (#46506255)
don't forget Aider from 2023
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Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? by outofpaper on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:58PM (#46506328)
Still working hard and now we also have Aider-ce.
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Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? by LPisGood on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:11PM (#46506502)
I’m confused. Claude is a few years old.
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Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? by advisedwang on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:21PM (#46506606)
The parent comment specifically referenced Claude Code, which launched in Feb 2025 [1] and went GA May 2025 [2]. Codex also launched May 2025 [3].

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

[3] https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/

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Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? by bpavuk on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:18PM (#46506590)
but not Claude Code. it was released just this summer (I guess?)
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Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? by userbinator on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:02AM (#46508930)
That makes me wonder how much of the article is true, and how much was hallucinated by an AI.
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