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Bluenose
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  • it's normal for me as I usually get zero in December.

    therefore, anything larger than zero in February is an uptick.

    there's big talk on linkedin but the market is still a blood bath.

    like someone said earlier, if a bunch of £1000-1500pd Salesforce, Microsoft...
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  • Bluenose
    replied to State of the Market
    The main issue is the dire state of the EU economy. Adecco, Raandstad, their share price reflects the cycle we are in, its not a good one.

    We are currently seeing share price valuation levels for these firms that are around 2009 or worse.

    The ATOS share price is not much better....
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  • Bluenose
    replied to State of the Market
    Yeah the usual rules still apply with regards to knowledge, guardrails and testing but engineers are very focused on engineering and the wider point is that if a clever person is good enough and experienced enough, they dont need a team of people anymore. Engineers will say ´but i need to check the...
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  • Bluenose
    replied to State of the Market
    This is on topic because its influencing the state of the market.

    My view is that we now live in a world with Claude Team agents where requirements can be taken as a set of customer transcripts, converted into PDD documents, UX-UI workflows, personas, solution architecture, PRD documents,...
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