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Stephen Downes

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Does AI work? "The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what's typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours. We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work (yes, that number is crazy but, real)." My own experience tells me that this is certainly plausible. Moreover, the resulting product is better, with "enhanced security and reduced infrastructure costs." Obviously this is an outlier statistic. But it's a very strong indicator of the direction in which this is headed.

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