Tag: newsletters
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The silent revolutionaries
Maybe the boomers aren’t the ones responsible. It was their parents. 🔗 The silent revolutionaries
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What DOGE taught us about AI and federal workers
Commentary on mass layoffs leaving thousands of federal workers unemployed and struggling to find their footing as AI accelerates disruption across the public sector. Summarized by AI. 🔗 What DOGE taught us about AI and federal workers
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LLMs and performative productivity
A developer’s case that AI coding agents produce the feeling of productivity while measurably eroding skills, code quality, and organizational learning – with a survey of the research backing the skepticism up. Summarized by AI. 🔗 LLMs and performative productivity
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If AGENTS.md smells ripe, your code won’t live up to the hype
Some tips on skills and AGENTS.md writing. 🔗 If AGENTS.md smells ripe, your code won’t live up to the hype
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The Case Against Building Your Own Agent Platform
Build-vs-buy for enterprise AI inverted in a single year because ‘agent platform’ is really four separate product bets – memory, governance, eval, orchestration – each underestimated and each with vendors 18 months ahead. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Case Against Building Your Own Agent Platform
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It’s crunch time for Java modernization
Between 2029 and 2032 every currently supported long-term support version of Java reaches end of support within a short span. Argues for starting modernization now rather than running parallel projects under pressure later. Summarized by AI. 🔗 It’s crunch time for Java modernization
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Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Attributing layoffs to AI seems false, a round-up. Plus the usual: app dev is more than coding. 🔗 Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
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Why drugs are here to stay (from my email)
“Mental health is health.” 🔗 Why drugs are here to stay (from my email)
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How Avocados Stopped Being Seasonal
A deep look at how trade, tech, and supply chain innovation turned avocados into a year-round staple, and the risks that could disrupt it. Summarized by AI. 🔗 How Avocados Stopped Being Seasonal
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What I think about when I edit
Distils what one editor looks for when working on other people’s writing, from emails to short stories to documentation, with advice meant to apply across genres. Summarized by AI. 🔗 What I think about when I edit
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‘Running out of money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers
A cluster of CEOs across food, fast food, appliances, and fitness report that lower-income US consumers have exhausted savings and are pulling back, prompting price cuts and canceled increases as pricing power reaches saturation. Summarized by AI. 🔗 ‘Running out of money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers
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The iPhone’s Last Stand
Argues Siri is not state of the art but works, and that this is good enough for the consumer market. Set against Microsoft’s Build vision for a new ecosystem of hardware devices and Apple’s bungled 2024 launch of Apple Intelligence. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The iPhone’s Last Stand
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Anthropic says 80% of its new production code is now authored by Claude – how your enterprise can keep up
Anthropic’s May 2026 codebase crossed 80% Claude-authored, with 8x per-engineer code velocity, recursive-self-improvement language, and a three-part enterprise playbook covering architectural oversight, automated code review, and operational-debt cleanup. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Anthropic says 80% of its new production code is now authored by Claude – how your enterprise can keep up
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Why ABN AMRO’s CEO wishes the bank was going further and faster with the AI rollout set to take out a quarter of its headcount
ABN AMRO’s CEO says she wishes the bank were going further and faster on AI, on top of already-announced plans to cut 5,200 full-time jobs, nearly a quarter of the workforce, by 2028. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Why ABN AMRO’s CEO wishes the bank was going further and faster with the AI rollout set to…
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AI Scribes in the Clinic: What Patients Should Know
On the consent form asking patients to permit a doctor to use an AI scribe during an appointment, and what patients should know before signing it. Summarized by AI. 🔗 AI Scribes in the Clinic: What Patients Should Know
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Doing nothing at work
Argues many engineers should work fewer hours and at a slower pace, aiming for 80% utilisation and spending 20% of the workday away from the computer. The reason given is that performance at tech companies is dominated by outlier events rather than steady output. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Doing nothing at work
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State AI Rollouts Are Outrunning Their Own Governance
State governments are rapidly deploying generative AI to employees without adequate governance, leaving data protection and labor impacts unaddressed. Summarized by AI. 🔗 State AI Rollouts Are Outrunning Their Own Governance
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The Minimill of AI
A small on-device classifier sorts background AI tasks as easy or hard and sends only the hardest to the cloud. A single Mac now handles 78% of the work, tripling throughput and cutting both cloud spend and wait times without changing the work itself. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Minimill of AI
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How People Are Really Using AI in 2026
The third edition of a study on how people actually use generative AI, finding an ever-widening range of uses and treating year-on-year movement as shifts in emphasis. Notes regular ChatGPT users at 900 million, Gemini past 750 million, and an $852 billion OpenAI valuation. Summarized by AI. 🔗 How People Are Really Using AI in…
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