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Are the companies that are behind on AI going under?
Allianz Trade warns that companies behind on AI are starting to pay the price, but its own test finds no link between AI use and bankruptcies. What the data does show: an AI gap between big and small companies, and what helps a small company close it.
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The job market is back. Developers aren't. Is that AI?
Hiring in most Western countries is back at or above pre-pandemic levels, but developers' share of it is a quarter to more than half below 2020. Country differences suggest the gap is mostly the cycle and how much an economy builds with AI, plus a smaller part (10 to 20%) that AI takes for good.
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How do you sell when AI filters you out?
AI now filters cold outreach and builds buyers' shortlists from what others have written. For suppliers whose value only shows once people work with them, word of mouth matters more than ever, but only the part that is written down where an AI can read it.
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If you mostly work at a computer, this is how your job will change
Software teams got faster with AI and their work got better. What arrived with it is a new kind of work: finding out which part of "almost right" isn't. Since January my own week looks like their numbers, and I think most digital work will follow.
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Where the weight in software work is moving
Engineering teams that have been using AI coding tools in production for a year or more tend to show the same pattern. Output volume is clearly up. Bugs per developer are up too. Review time has gone through the roof. Something in the economics of the work has flipped, and the standard productivi
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AI's real value is in your operations, not your product
Everyone around you seems to be hiring AI engineers. AI job postings are up 143% in a year. The wage premium is 56%. The message is hard to miss: if you're serious about AI, you need serious technical talent.
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The SaaS sector is supposedly dying. Here’s what the data actually shows.
If you run a SaaS company, you’ve been reading a lot of alarming things lately. AI will make your product irrelevant. The “SaaSpocalypse” is here. The era of software subscriptions is over. If even half of this is true, it changes what your company is worth, who will buy from you, and whether you
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