WYSIWID: What you see is what it does | The Essence of Software
Rethinking software structure to enable LLM coding| The Essence of Software
Rethinking software structure to enable LLM coding| The Essence of Software
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.| mikelovesrobots.substack.com
Andy Bell had heard companies were forcing employees to use AI tools so spoke to developers to determine if that was the case and learned some horrors in the process.| Piccalilli
Sometimes a merge request (MR) doesn't merit a code review (CR) because AI was used in a bad way that harms the team or the project. For example:| blog.stuartspence.ca
We evaluate whether GPT-5 poses significant catastrophic risks via AI self-improvement, rogue replication, or sabotage of AI labs. We conclude that this seems unlikely. However, capability trends continue rapidly, and models display increasing eval awareness.| METR’s Autonomy Evaluation Resources
People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both. See my story, and learn why you should not be like Gabriel!| www.architecture-weekly.com
What the data really shows about AI coding tools in 2025| addyo.substack.com
All of these Long Links pieces have begun with more or less the same words, so why| ongoing by Tim Bray
A new study claims that programmers think they're faster using LLM tools, but in reality they work slower. If that's true, why do programmers think they're working more quickly?| ezhart.com
Robots won't replace me, but another human probably will.| Thomasorus
The Astronomer CEO’s Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia| Bionic Teaching
Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02| www.mindprison.cc
By relying on it to do the actual work the end result creates more problems and work than if AI hadn't been used at all.| Aram ZS | Digital Garden
Full-stack developers are back. AI demands broader skills, reversing the specialization trend we've seen for decades.| Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
An experience report for my participation in METR's study "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity".| Domenic Denicola
Cela fait une année que je mesure mes activités alors je commence à avoir des chiffres intéressants. Ou plutôt en quantité suffisante pour jouer avec.| larlet.fr
In this study, developers were 19% slower when using AI.| newsletter.getdx.com
I want to present you with two narratives about AI. Both of them are about using this technology to automate computer programming, but they point ... Read more| Cal Newport
While the rest of the world loses its collective mind over artificial intelligence, Tasmania is sitting on an amazing competitive advantage… and might be about to throw it away by jumping on the AI bandwagon. Everything that makes Tasmania economically successful is the exact opposite of what AI represents. And if Tasmanian businesses start chasing AI “efficiency” instead of leveraging their authentic advantages, they’ll transform from premium producers into generic commodity suppliers.| hey.paris
In late 2022 and early 2023 I published a pair of articles: one outlining my| tratt.net
METR just released another report, titled “Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity.” The pull quote is: Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower. I’ve been pondering this one all morning. I generally like their methodology. Obviously you always want ever-more controlled experiments slicing every possible input, but as a real-world trial, the experimental design I thin...| cocoaphony.micro.blog
Despite glowing reviews, a rigorous study shows experienced coders take longer to complete tasks with AI, while still believing they’re faster.| InfoWorld
Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains| secondthoughts.ai
AI companies and wider society want to understand the capabilities of frontier AI systems, and what risks they pose.| metr.org
