The Top AI Tool for Devs Isn’t GitHub Copilot, New Report Finds - “LeadDev’s respondents, too, mostly believe that AI has made them more productive, with only 5% saying there was no change and 10% saying it was making them less productive. But 26% also said that they weren’t sure or didn’t know, which, as Carey noted, points to the fact that many organizations also don’t have a way for tracking developer productivity."
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Is GPT-5 really worse than GPT-4o? Ars puts them to the test. - This is a good way to review AIs.
Who does your assistant serve? - Against AI for therapy and friendship, etc.
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? - Eventually, you have to pay for that business value.
Why AI Can’t Crack Your Database - “The real challenge lies in business context. Understanding what the data means, how different teams define metrics, and when edge cases matter.” // The app is what matters, and so you beee to integrate it into the business, the people.
The forgotten war on the Walkman - The new thing is always going to destroy civilization, or at least proper behavior.
From Knowledge to Action - For AI, now, the app is what matters most.
Why we’ve decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS (Platform as a Service) – Government Digital Service - “It has enjoyed uptime of 99.95%, and suffered only one major incident in its 7 years. All this while tenants deployed services more than 122 times a day, made up of 3,200 applications.” // It worked well, but people didn’t want to use it. Instead: Kubernetes. It’d be cool to hear how the next three years went.
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. - “We have been fed a steady diet of bullshit for the last several years.” // He’s not a fan.