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Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing momentum, confidence, and ultimately, the argument. One of my close friends won international debate competitions for fun while we were at university (he’s now a successful crim...| My place to put things
We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower. We view this result as a snapshot of early-2025 AI capabilities in one relevant setting; as these systems continue to rapidly evolve, we plan on continuing to use this methodology to help estimate AI ...| metr.org
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.| Simon Willison’s Weblog
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.| Blood in the Machine