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Links: Measuring AI's Impact on Productivity, GitHub's New AI Coding Tool, & more

· Originally on Substack

Create a painterly digital artwork in the style of 19th-century Romanticism or Impressionism, depicting an experienced software developer at their workstation surrounded by swirling, abstract forms representing AI—flowing code, glowing neural networks, and ethereal digital assistants; use expressive brushstrokes and a cool palette of blues and purples with warm highlights on the developer to convey contemplation and subtle frustration about AI’s paradoxical slowdown of productivity, while integrating stylized code snippets and open-source symbols to blend timeless human insight with futuristic technology, evoking artists like J.M.W. Turner or Claude Monet with a balance of realism and abstraction.
  1. Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity. This study has had me thinking pretty hard about how I use AI coding tools, and how I can be sure I’m not fooling myself into thinking they’re helping when they aren’t. (Cross-posted to LessWrong; full paper)
  2. LiveStore is an interesting take on reactive local-first data management.
  3. Harper Reed posted his AI coding workflow, including how he builds his prompts.
  4. Anthropic posted something loosely similar, detailing how they use Claude Code internally. (Via AGI Friday)
  5. Christopher Moravec blogged his take on the oops-AI-deleted-my-prod-DB incident.
  6. GitHub now has their own AI coding website similar to existing tools like bolt.new.
  7. Mark Zuckerberg is pitching personal artificial super intelligences, and also aggressively hiring AI researchers.
  8. Philip Pettit spoke with Sean Carroll on the philosophy of politics and freedom.
  9. Tyler Vigen has a web page giving many examples of spurious correlations.
  10. Howtown published a video on how lead exposure impacted people’s IQ and mental health for decades.
  11. This website has a large collection of retro tiled backgrounds when you’re feeling nostalgic for GeoCities design aesthetics.
  12. Tender is like Tinder but just for you and your significant other.
  13. Marion Stokes secretly recorded and archived television for thirty years.
  14. The creators of Forfeit have a new hardcore productivity app, Overlord.
  15. There’s a theme park “dedicated to pushing buttons.”
  16. Here’s an interactive history of Mac settings.
  17. CodeRabbit can generate docstrings for you.
  18. LLUMO is a platform for debugging AI agents.

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