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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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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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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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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