Tag: productivity
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Yes: “about what benefits AI is actually providing today, 66 percent said it’s improving productivity and efficiency.” But: “How that works when only 20 percent report revenue growth is left unanswered.” // And: “Currently, 25 percent of organizations say they’ve shifted 40 percent or more of their AI experiments into live use. That number is…
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Relevant to your interests, Wednesday
RIP the metaverse – It’s fine to use your mountains of spare cash (and voting control) to try out new things. We’re all about innovation and expect it; you have to embrace lots of failure, giant failure. // The actual problem is then discarding all the people you hired to help you. It shucks the…
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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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Relative to your interests, Monday
Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? AI security concerns and opportunities for 2026 – Tanzu security maestro David Zendzian rattles it off. Amazon gives managers a new way to spot employees who aren’t spending enough time in the office – Enterprise Nanny-state. What does the platform engineer do when the amount of…
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Employee optimism about work-place productivity
Employees think working from home is fine: Hybrid work has moved from novelty to normality, but employers and employees are no longer aligned on what it should look like. More than half of employees (56%) now work in the office full-time, yet only 15% would choose this pattern, with three-quarters (75%) preferring a more balanced…
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Related to your interests for Sunday
“Moody’s Analytics recently estimated that the top 10 percent of households were responsible for nearly half of all spending.” K-shaped. AI is used a lot for making software. Not sure about the survey demographics and methodology. Deciding on Obama v. McCain in 2008. Keep track of things you’ve done each day so you realize you’re…
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Full on management-by-magazine phase in effect
Executive mandates are racing ahead of reality. Boards and CEOs often expect payback in 6–12 months, but disconnected strategies, messy data, and immature governance stall progress. While two-thirds of AI decision-makers say their organization uses genAI in production, only 15% report a positive impact on earnings, and just a third can link AI spend to…
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The ongoing existential quandary of corporate presentations and meetings: “PowerPoint’s job is simply to help you survive the presentation.” The full thought: it doesn’t exactly help you communicate something (you do that in Word, or Excel); or coordinate something (you do that in Outlook, or nowadays Slack). PowerPoint’s job is simply to help you survive…
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What you’re putting off now is not going to get any easier or less boring to do in the future. So, try to just do it now and gift yourself future self the lack of that bullshit.
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Highlights from that OpenAI “The state of enterprise AI report”
On average, ChatGPT Enterprise users attribute 40–60 minutes of time saved per active day to their use of AI, with data science, engineering, and communications workers saving more than average (60–80 minutes per day). That’s the headline grabbing piece from the recent ChatGPT for work study. The theory take-away from that is that the more…
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Monday assorted links
Shadow AI, here it comes. Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, stop…oh, forget it… – ”IDC research shows that unmanaged tech debt can consume 20 – 40% of development time, diverting resources away from innovation and modernization.” “warehouses of bananas.” Europe is under siege “Applets are officially, completely removed from Java 26, coming in March…
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”Extrapolating these results to the economy, current generation AI models could increase annual US labor productivity growth by 1.8% over the next decade. This would double the annual growth the US has seen since 2019, and places our estimate towards the upper end of recent estimates. ” 🔗 Estimating AI productivity gains, Anthropic
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“In software development, we have 18,000 developers at the company that use coding agents today to optimize our development process,” Hari Gopalkrishnan. “We’ve already seen 20% productivity [boosts] coming out of those parts of the lifecycle, which we are now reinvesting next year into new growth programs.” 🔗 Bank of America runs 270 AI models…
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“These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%.” 🔗 The Economic Impact of Brexit
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Survive the next meeting
This is a mode I catch myself in where all I’m focused on is getting through the next meeting. “Getting through” means running out the clock so that it’s over, getting out of it without any new work, and especially without “getting in trouble” for something. Obviously, this is bad most of the time as…
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Organizations are measuring DevEx metrics more, JetBrains survey
JetBrain’s The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity survey is out. It’s an oddly, narrowly focused survey. Mostly on metrics used to measure developer experience. Above, the metrics most used for tracking/rating/metric’ing development..As the conclusion says, measuring DevEx is getting better: The good news is that companies are getting more serious about tracking developer…
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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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A meeting is not work, it’s talking about work.
As always, if you want your people to get more work done, interrupt them less and invite them to less meetings. This applies to all people, not just programmers. A meeting is not work, it’s talking about work. 🔗 Meetings and interruptions are still the biggest obstacles for developers, even with AI
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Festina lente / make haste slowly
The meaning of the phrase is that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence. If tasks are rushed too quickly then mistakes are made and good long-term results are not achieved. Work is best done in a state of flow in which one is fully engaged by the task and…
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You get the enterprise AI you deserve, or, while management search for AI workloads, workers gobble up the AI ROI
A round-up of recent “how is enterprise AI use and outcomes going?” links: Value seems to accrue to employee, the not enterprise. The ROI is, therefore, not legible. Related: Brian on “smart people” profiting from and using UI. The US military wants AI on every desk: “‘We want to have an AI capability on every…
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