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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

You keep using the word "you". You don't know what I can automate or what I have automated.

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago

You can't automate these tasks without AI because anything that was capable of generalising to automating such a diverse set of tasks is AI.

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