Tag: automation
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🤖 How People Are Really Using AI in 2026: Thinkslop, Therapy, and Shadow Work
Original: How People Are Really Using AI in 2026 by Harvard Business Review. Summarized by AI on June 2, 2026. Generative AI has become deeply embedded in daily life, with 900 million regular ChatGPT users and Google Gemini close behind. A longitudinal study of 12,637 fresh use cases shows adoption expanding across personal, emotional, and…
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If speeding up coding was never the problem…then why are we spending money on speeding it up?
When it comes to measuring developer productivity driven by AI, we’ll probably land on the same conclusion as always: counting lines of code isn’t as useful as measuring the full cycle time from idea to code to delivery to a person actually using the app – lead time, concept to cash, whatever you want to…
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de-weirding enterprise AI
Ethan Mollick: The de-weirding impulse produces a second, deeper failure: it leads companies to default towards automation rather than augmentation. When leaders see studies showing productivity gains of 30% from AI, their instinct is to cut 30% of the workforce. That arithmetic is simple. What is hard, and requires genuine imagination, is asking a different…
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Kubernetes alone does not a platform make
Even the platform engineers need to hide Kubernetes to get their job done: Kubernetes adds another layer of complexity for platform engineering teams, introducing architectural complexities that require a deep understanding of containers, networking, storage, and cluster security protocols. While it has become the default runtime for modern applications, managing Kubernetes at scale alongside existing…
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Management is always eager to “reduce costs.”
The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor…
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Even Jamie Dimon is like: fellas, fellas….let’s slow-roll destroying society as we know it… if AI is imposed on them in one fell swoop when effective driverless vehicles hit the road, all those people could potentially go from making $150,000 a year to $25,000 in their next jobs: “Should you do it all at once?……
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🤖 Summary of “Economist Tyler Cowen on the positive side of AI negativity” podcast
The below is a summary of the original transcript from ChatGPT 5.2. Conclusion: Cowen’s core claim is simple and sharp: in the US, most people won’t lose jobs to AI, they’ll lose them to other people who use AI better. The real bottleneck isn’t models or GPUs – it’s institutions, habits, status hierarchies, and people’s…
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“Labor is valuable only insofar as it occupies a constraint the firm hasn’t yet automated.”
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Labor vs. AI
Automation creates a temporary rent for whoever controls the remaining bottleneck. Whether workers keep that rent is a power question, not a technology question. ChatGPT summary of this paper on automation and wages. And I would add: The firm is seeking to get rid of human workers as much as possible. So once that high…
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Those Gemini slides and infographics are OK. What would be awesome is deciding as a civilization that we don’t want to handcraft slides and infographics anymore, and we’re cool with just letting the AIs make them based on the documents we write and give to the AIs to make their bad-ass vaporware slides. (Then I…
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Shutdown and consolidate old IT so you can focus on new IT, like AI hoopla
People often say they spend 80% of their IT efforts on maintenance, “keeping the lights on”: Like all banks, our technology expenditure has been weighted towards maintenance and regulatory programs. These activities represented around 85% of our tech investment spend in 2024. So, simplifying that, shutting down old things is a positive thing to do;…
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Amazon’s enterprise AI strategy, explained by Neil Ward-Dutton
Neil Ward-Dutton, an IDC analyst focused on AI, automation, data and analytics, said three announcements on the first day of the conference were of note. “AWS AI Factories is one,” he said. “These are AWS AI infrastructure and software stacks, built and managed by AWS, but deployed in customers’ own datacentres. “These are, at least…
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The options we pass to FFmpeg in a variety of cases is now so complicated that I can’t really understand or edit it without AI. Just image all the sed and awk script, the regex’s we can now all write effortlessly. 🔗 Manton
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Infrastructure self-harm
That wasn’t what we hoped would happen when nearly 10 years ago we and others came up with these new automated technologies around Kubernetes. We thought we would make things easier, more automated, safer, more compliant. And instead, people seem to be getting more and more stuck. And that’s partly because systems have grown. We’re…
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🤖 DoD Unveils CSRMC: Automating Continuous Compliance for Cyber Risk at Operational Speed
Summarized by AI. The article explores how defense and enterprise organizations are evolving from traditional, static compliance frameworks toward continuous, automated, and intelligence-driven security models. It traces the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) cybersecurity governance evolution–from DITSCAP in 1997 to the newly announced Cyber Security Risk Management Construct (CSRMC) in 2025–and argues that this shift…
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AI use in banking, BBVA
The use of OpenAI tools is becoming widespread among employees who, with more than 4,000 active GPTs and an average use of 4.1 days per week, claim that it saves them nearly three hours a week. This impact translates into time-savings of up to 80% for certain specific tasks, such as report writing or risk…
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Command-line Life Style.
Tiny CLI scripts for tiny tasks. // I love this kind of thing. 🔗 My Secret Recipe for Personal Scripts
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Not helpful
I am in my Gmail, and I open up the Gemini side bar and type: Flag emails I should just archive. The criteria is that if they are not directly to me, probably archive. Also if they are old, probably archive. Only save emails where there is some direct question to me or task I…
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AI chatbots at the municipal level
Using an AI chat desk to augment the support desk for a Us county. This seems like a basic packaging of AI stuff that you could sell to thousands of places. It probably also exposes the redundancy and waste on the US Federalist system. E.g., does every county and city need different bulk trash pickup…
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🤖 AI in Radiology: Why Machines Make Radiologists Busier, Not Obsolete
AI has revolutionized medical imaging benchmarks, detecting diseases with speed and precision that can surpass human radiologists. Yet in practice, hospitals still rely heavily on human expertise, and radiology jobs are growing in both pay and demand. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: AI isn’t replacing radiologists. Key Points AI models excel in lab benchmarks but…
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