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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by aurareturn on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:27AM (#47058652)
I might not be a good programmer but I've been a very productive one.

Someone who is good at writing code isn't always good at making money.

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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by gzread on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @04:45AM (#47059163)
AI slop books made more money than JK Rowling, too.
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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by aurareturn on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @05:02AM (#47059297)
Maybe in the future, yea. Most likely not because creating books is much easier now but total reading time can't increase nearly as fast. More books chasing the same amount of reading time.
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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by mghackerlady on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @10:10AM (#47061808)
To be fair, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they were better than barfs onto a page. She's not exactly Tolkien
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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by toldnotmywrath on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @12:17PM (#47063439)
Problem with much of this talk is receipts are always nowhere to be found.
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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by aurareturn on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @02:14PM (#47065028)
But I don't see any receipts from the opposite side either.
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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by gzread on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @08:28PM (#47068795)
You don't see any good software made by people who know how computers work?
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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo... by aurareturn on Thursday February 19, 2026 @02:05AM (#47070808)
You don't see any good software made by people who don't know how CPUs, GPUs, networking work at a deep level?
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