Tag: productivity
-
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…
-
”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
-
“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…
-
“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
-
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…
-
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…
-
Command-line Life Style.
Tiny CLI scripts for tiny tasks. // I love this kind of thing. 🔗 My Secret Recipe for Personal Scripts
-
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
-
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…
-
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…
-
my “shopping” note keeps me from buying dumb shit all the time – Instead of actually impulse buying, put it on a list to get that dopamine hit. // “for the past year and a half i have been keeping a plain note (it started as an apple note but now i use obsidian) titled…
-
🤖 Bain Says GenAI Coding Hype Falls Flat Without Full Software Lifecycle Rethink
Generative AI stormed into software development promising a coding revolution, but so far, it’s making developers only marginally faster—and in some cases, slower. Bain & Company’s Technology Report 2025 argues that real productivity gains will require a wholesale reinvention of the entire development lifecycle, not just sprinkling AI on coding tasks. AI generated summary of:…
-
So many links, so many finds
PaaS Talk We’re trying to amp up more technical explanations and demos of why Tanzu Platform/Cloud Foundry are great. Here is a little front-runner for a demo I’m going to extract from this same talk. Relative to your interests I didn’t take the time to organize these by topic. Apologies and kisses. UK government productivity…
-
🤖 We’re Optimizing Ourselves Into Oblivion
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: Our obsession with efficiency is costing us our humanity. Modern life is obsessed with speed, convenience, and frictionless efficiency, but in the process, we’re eroding the small, slow pleasures that make life meaningful. The piece argues that embracing inconvenience—commutes, cooking, wandering—restores humanity in a world of one-click…
-
UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/1… ‘The main uses were “transcribing or summarising a meeting”, “writing an email”, and “summarising written communications”. The bot didn’t do so well on anything more complicated.’
-
Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption – 🤖: “Enterprise deployment via Anthropic’s API exposes a different facet: businesses adopt AI programmatically to automate. 77% of API usage is automation-dominant, particularly in coding, debugging, office administration, and recruitment. Surprisingly, firms are not especially price-sensitive; higher-cost tasks see higher adoption if they deliver…
-
Slowing Down – How to avoid burnout as you get more successful at life.
-
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…
-
“We’re gonna show, the young people, how to have an effective 30 minute meeting.”
Perfect Foods Perfect foods: traditional Tex-Mex refried beans; bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast taco; pad thai with tofu; instant ramen noodles; Dutch fries with mayonnaise; sharp cheddar cheese; salted butter (aka, European butter); peanut butter, chunky; HEB tortillas; kibbling; coffee; queso with all the stuff in it; (OK, OK: all of Tex-Mex); USDA steak, cooked…
-
How to Fix Your Context – Lots to digest in here.