Surviving the Cut, but Drowning in Tasks: The Layoff Lottery's Bitter Prize

7 nsagheen 2 7/28/2025, 2:02:33 PM medium.com ↗

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add-sub-mul-div · 6h ago
Impressive output!

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tschwimmer · 4h ago
Honestly very impressive, even with LLM augmentation.