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I know Forbes is not known for its journalistic integrity, but this is some real garbage here. Where’s the “viral social media thread”? I tried to search for it, and couldn’t find anything. There’s nothing on the guy’s Twitter or LinkedIn.

“Many software engineers at major tech firms are making between $200,000 and $300,000 dollars annually while pushing as few as "two code changes a month."” What’s the source on this? Who is even being quoted?

Is this whole article an AI hallucination?

And despite the click bait "billions wasted" headline, at no point does the article offer any information on the alleged billions wasted.

After scrolling past a week of tweets, the thread (6.5M views): https://x.com/deedydas/status/1858929066264379629

Is Section 174 motivating VC interest in "efficiency"? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=section%20174

Ok, so it was not a hallucination. But still, this guy’s source: “I made it up”.

It might as well have been written by AI. An article about a Twitter comment thread is the laziest, most useless form of “journalism” I can think of. Making something up at least requires some imagination.

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