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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Aug 6, 2025

WeAreDevelopers LIVE - the weekly developer show with Chris Heilmann and Daniel Cranney

Chris Heilmann , Daniel Cranney , Julia Kordick

Microsoft's Julia Cardi warns that AI assistants create a hidden productivity tax for senior developers. Discover why, and see how multi-agent frameworks are successfully reverse-engineering legacy COBOL codebases.

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