AI implementation in organizations currently focuses on efficiency rather than transformative growth, leading to a disconnect between productivity improvements and financial accountability.

Despite high expectations for AI’s impact on business productivity, over half of CEOs report no benefits from its implementation, highlighting a significant disconnect between technology investment and cultural readiness.

The first thing is, the travel industry changes very slowly. What changes most frequently is the interior decorating. The seats in planes, the plugs in hotel rooms, the signs in airports. Even these don’t change structurally, just in aesthetically. The biggest change in 20 years has been Uber. I started traveling in 20051 which meant taxis. This was stressful. As a boy from Austin, taxis were not part of my life.

Each time I write a small utility, either a command line one or for an MCP server, I need to store state and config in the file system. I’ve come up with many ways of doing it. You know, like, you want to store a default LLM prompt in a file. You want to store a D&D play log in a file, or a bunch of markdown files for D&D monsters.

Rejecting editing suggestions that dilute your unique writing style is essential for maintaining personality and engagement in your work.

Focusing solely on surviving meetings can lead to challenges when dealing with both well-meaning and malicious colleagues in a corporate environment.

AI-generated videos and images could be significantly “better” without current technological and content restrictions.

There’s a new study out that means it’s time to update all those slides that say AI projects are failing: [A] new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School complicates the narrative. The study found that 74% of businesses that measure the ROI from their generative AI efforts are already seeing a positive return, and more expect to see a positive ROI within the next two or three years.

180 million-plus developers now work and build on GitHub. Their definition is “[a]nyone with a GitHub account.” Let’s not overthink it, just yet, and instead go with what they’re saying. If 2025 had a theme, it would be growth. Every second, more than one new developer on average joined GitHub–over 36 million in the past year. It’s our fastest absolute growth rate yet and 180 million-plus developers now work and build on GitHub.

Claude Code is being utilized beyond coding, particularly for analyzing and reformatting plain text notes, suggesting that AI may emerge as standalone applications rather than being integrated into existing software.