The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath.

Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it.

It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

The dream: AI boosts productivity so much we all get 4-day workweeks.

The reality: AI productivity gains are an excuse for companies to cut staff or ask why you need a hire at all. No one’s handing out Fridays off because your job got easier, just more pressure to justify your existence

“Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty”

… or how to lose government contracts all over the world in one easy step. 🖕🏾🖕🏾

www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change.

The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.

This is the single best piece I've read on "replacing coders with AI," it fully dispells the myth from the perspective of a software engineer and does so in a calm, reasonable way.
colton.dev/blog/curing-...

Ed Zitron argues the AI boom is a bubble based on three arguments

1) Nvidia’s stock price hinges on FAANG’s endless GPU buying spree

2) Big Tech is spending 10x more on AI infrastructure than they earn

3) AI startups like OpenAI & Anthropic are making billions but are burning even more billions.

A research study on using AI coding assistants has shown that while developers believed they got a 20% productivity gain from using the tools, measurement showed a 19% decrease in productivity.

The issue seems to be that devs only count coding time saved but not the time spent prompting & reviewing

People producing documents full of AI hallucinations in serious contexts will only get worse as businesses embrace AI “productivity gains” in the era of cost cutting.

They work faster but it’s really easy for people to skim over content they didn’t write when their employers are pushing for speed.

Full blog - you should *absolutely* read it deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

I also find these AI tools helpful when it’s doing the routine task I’ve done many times and can do it with eyes closed

But… it’s not helpful when I want to build something GREAT that is elegant, and better than before

HUGE news

5 years, Epic spending ~$100M on lawyer fees... and the court ruled that Apple cannot block Fortnite just because it uses web payments where Apple cannot take a 30% cut! (I's not Apple's infra, and Apple has nothing to do with it!)

Now other apps will follow. Massive

Microsoft declined to comment on why they switched law firms from one that capitulated to Trump to one that’s fighting his executive orders.

I suspect it’s likely a coincidence but the optics are still not favorable to the appeasing law firms.

This is HUGE: Apple can no longer charge the "Apple Tax" on web transactions.

Epic fought up against this anticompetitive practice; took Apple to court and scored a clear and decisive victory.

Apple cannot collect a 27% tax on web purchases. Not for Epic, not for others.

SO frustrating when (at a larger company) you need another service make a small change... so you ask the team owning it to do it, and they tell you "sorry, can't do now, we can do it maybe in 2-3 months"

SO liberating when you can just make the change yourself and submit the PR

Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.

As a tech worker you will need two skills in the current

1. Doing more with less. This isn’t about AI but more that expectations are rising while resources aren’t.

2. Being able to articulate the value of your work, your team’s and your org. If it isn’t high then either change it or find a way out

Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

Structural violence, according to Johan Galtung, points to social structures, and political and economic systems and policies that harm through preventing others from accessing basic needs or rights or through social exclusion and economic, political, religious, and educational marginalization.