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Re:Firms that adopt AI grow headcount 10% over the two years... by jorisw on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:51AM (#48743130)
> That’s not supported by the evidence. Current rates of employment are well below historic levels.

What evidence?

Wasn’t employment in engineering down before all this could’ve gotten enough widespread traction to actually displace jobs?

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Re:Firms that adopt AI grow headcount 10% over the two years... by Retric on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:33AM (#48746513)
Programming/engineering may be of supreme concern to you, but they made a much wider claim.

> There's never been an automation revolution that worked otherwise.

Requires all automation to have zero effect on net jobs long term. Meanwhile the percentage of people working is down so that’s clearly not true.

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