We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Warum es praktisch unmöglich ist, gegen anonyme Hass-Postings auf X vorzugehen - ein Erfahrungsbericht:

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

I am getting SO tired of these posts from influencers:

“We literally cloned an N billion-dollar company in 20 minutes with {vibe coding tool}. This changes the game forever.”

No, you didn’t “clone” a billion-dollar business. You created a landing page similar to it. That’s all.

Ein ganz feiner Mensch ist gestorben. Ruhe in Frieden lieber Hubert.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

In case you want to know, here is a list of European alternatives to popular digital services.

(This is not an official EU site.)

european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...

Last-minute turnaround, as reported by Forbes

CVE or MITRE *really* needs to get funding elsewhere than the US government, to ensure stability, after this incident tho...

This could have been very very bad www.forbes.com/sites/kateof...

"Wenn der Faschismus kommt, scheint noch immer die Sonne. Die Vögel singen. Sie gehen zur Arbeit. Alles ist normal."

Berührende Rede von @afelia.bsky.social zu zum 80. Befreiungstag des KZ Buchenwald

The whole point of a kanban board is that it manages a pull system. When you ship something, you pull the next thing to work on from upstream. If you finish a story, you pull a new one from the customer.
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I wonder how big the outcry would be if the EU demanded that a US company sell half of its EU business to a European company? #tiktokban

How do you measure productivity in software?
Should you even measure it?
Hear what #SanderHoogendoorn has to say about it after epiphany from @kentbeck.bsky.social.
youtube.com/shorts/EXvGM...

Viele von Euch kennen uns bereits von X bzw. Twitter. Da wir auf dieser Plattform jedoch neu beginnen, möchten wir gerne von euch wissen, worauf ihr in unserer Kommunikation besonderen Wert legt bzw. was euch besonders interessiert. Wir sind gespannt auf euren Input! ⬇

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Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy?

This brilliantly explains so much of what's happening right now.

waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-...