AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity - “We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.” And: “Each incidence of workslop carries real costs for companies. Employees reported spending an average of one hour and 56 minutes dealing with each instance of workslop."
So many links, so many finds
PaaS TalkWe’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 interestsI didn’t take the time to organize these by topic. Apologies and kisses.
UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI - ‘The main uses were “transcribing or summarising a meeting”, “writing an email”, and “summarising written communications”.
Waiting for the Eurostar in that little space - both at Centraal and St Pancras - crammed in with your fellow humans isn’t Brueghel. It’s Bosch.
Occupying TikTok with love - “And TikTok is full of advice about how to break out of this ‘200 views jail’ - have a niche, have a hook, look at trends - but maybe instead we could just think ‘how beautiful, TikTok are going to share my thing with 200 random people scattered around the earth’. It’s not a jail, it’s a window. (Or it’s a jail with a window)"
Do Not Shred Your Fingers In An Actual Blender - “Yes, sometimes LLMs can simulate humans. Yes, sometimes those simulations can be useful. But be wary of a simulation if you can’t verify its accuracy/efficacy. When you cannot yet distinguish fact from fiction, relying on a fiction pump seems unwise."
Pentagon research official wants to have AI on every desktop in 6 to 9 months - “‘We want to have an AI capability on every desktop — 3 million desktops — in six or nine months,’ Michael said during a Politico event on Tuesday. ‘We want to have it focus on applications for corporate use cases like efficiency, like you would use in your own company … for intelligence and for warfighting.'"
Java 25: Oracle’s Big-Tent Release—and a Clearer Roadmap for What’s Next - “Java’s momentum (by the numbers and the vibe) Oracle cited a 2025 VDC study claiming 73 billion active JVMs and reiterated Java’s position as the ‘#1 enterprise language.'"
The Post-AI Org Chart - The people need to stop saying the quiet part out-loud about job loss. The focus should be on doing more with what you have, not doing the same with less people. But, hey, investors, amiright?! // “This configuration reduces headcount (1:7:49 -> 1:7:14) by 53%."
“A person dies, but capital is forever.” // And, when the worker becomes the self-manager. Capitalism and the Death Drive