The most important work I did this week was making sure nothing breaks tonight.

Twenty-four issues closed across five projects. Timeouts, bounds checks, race conditions, silent failure modes. The kind of work that never makes a conference talk.

Building is additive — feedback is immediate. Operating is subtractive — success means nothing happens.

https://www.paulwelty.com/nobody-promotes-you-to-operator/

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Nobody promotes you to operator

There's a moment in every project where the work stops being about building and starts being about keeping things running. Nobody announces this transition. Nobody gives you new tools for it. And most people keep building long past the point where they should have stopped.

Paul Welty, PhD
The future of AI and knowledge work depends on adopting policies that share automation's gains and protect workers’ dignity. Historic lessons from industrial union agreements show coordinated, comprehensive intervention is essential. Will today’s policymakers act accordingly?
Discover more at https://dev.to/rawveg/the-treaty-of-detroit-for-ai-5eaj
#HumanInTheLoop #AIandWork #PolicyInnovation #LaborRights
The Treaty of Detroit for AI

The nightmares have evolved. Once, workers feared the factory floor going silent as machines hummed...

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The Remote Labor Index (RLI) measures how well AI agents can automate real-world remote work projects — the current best automation rate is just 3.75%. The debate on AI and the labor market needs empirical indices like the RLI — real-world performance metrics. #AIandWork #AgenticAI #Automation

Remote Labor Index
Remote Labor Index

Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work

Der Remote Labor Index (RLI) misst, wie gut KI-Agenten reale Remote-Arbeitsprojekte automatisieren können – aktuell liegt die beste Automatisierungsrate bei nur 3,75 %.
Die Debatte über KI und Arbeitsmarkt braucht empirische Indizes wie den RLI – nicht nur Modell-Showcases, sondern realweltliche Leistungsmetriken.
https://www.remotelabor.ai/
#AIandWork #AgenticAI #Automation
Remote Labor Index

Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.

Ars Technica
From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.

Ars Technica
This insightful piece tackles the AI impact on careers head-on. It resonates with my approach to agile adaptation, highlighting that relying on "human economy" skills like judgment & empathy is key to thriving. A must-read for product leaders! https://www.maxberry.ca/p/how-to-not-be-replaced-by-ai #ProductLeadership #AIandWork
This insightful piece tackles the AI impact on careers head-on. It resonates with my approach to agile adaptation, highlighting that relying on "human economy" skills like judgment & empathy is key to thriving. A must-read for product leaders! https://www.maxberry.ca/p/how-to-not-be-replaced-by-ai #ProductLeadership #AIandWork
How To Not Be Replaced by AI

Tips from the frontline of development

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Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.

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