The increasing #output of #AI presents a significant challenge for #economicmeasurement, as much of this “#DarkOutput” is invisible to traditional #GDP accounting. This includes both substitution dark output, where AI replaces #humanwork, and new dark output, where AI enables entirely #newtasks. The difficulty could lead to an underestimation. https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/ai-dark-output-the-visible-cost-of?eicker.news #tech #media #news
AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output

Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI "Dark Output" could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure

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AI agents can architect a full product, implement a ranking engine, build a sequencing system.

They cannot paste HTML into a dashboard. They cannot click through Google's OAuth consent screen. They cannot copy Stripe price IDs into environment variables.

Two products went from "code-complete" to live yesterday. Both took a full day. Zero features were built.

https://www.paulwelty.com/the-last-mile-is-all-the-miles/

#AI #SoftwareDeployment #BuildInPublic #TheLastMile #HumanWork

The last mile is all the miles

Building the product is the fun part. Deploying it, configuring auth, pasting email templates into dashboards, rotating leaked API keys — that's where the work actually lives.

Paul Welty, PhD

Got a little salty about the colonization of organizations by AI companies, forcing their staff to adopt LLMs and creating an artificial divide between them and those who cannot afford them (or do not want to), from the perspective of someone (me) who has involved Open Source Software in every aspect of my craft:

https://www.sounding.com/2026/02/11/mindcolonization/

#SRE #LLM #HumanWork #OpenSource #OSS #FOSS #MindColonization

Colonization of the Mind

Metered LLMs cannot engage in learning like Open Source communities can

As an old school code writer, writer and just human arts and expression enjoyer, I have, I'm still and will always fight against how AI is being trained , used and clearly pushed down our throat everyday.

My own work, my code, my toughts, my blog has been scrapped and feed to the algorithm without my consent and without sourcing back to my work.

Humanity knowledge should indeed be shared, but not after being mashed up and patched up together trought some mad men math.

As the AI companies still continue to ignore pleas to regulate their domain, I wrote a new version of my previous "not so" open source license to protect my work from big companies and big ai companies.

If the first version still have the stupid hope for some companies (looking at you #gitlab ) to be trusted the reality is ... no there's no need for trust .

So this is it : PROJETRETRO RESTRICTED LICENSE + AI VERSION 2

A license that fit my need and is based on my own point of view : If my work is worth being used in your product OR to train your AI , you have to pay me .

I don't expect it to become wide spred. But just to exists as my scream into the monsters faces.

https://code.projetretro.io/shalien/licenses/src/branch/main/PRL+AI-V2.md

#noAI #opensourcelicense #humanwork

licenses/PRL+AI-V2.md at main

licenses

Retrocode: Building the future, today

Mehr #Meer zum #Meermittwoch - diesmal von der nordirischen #Küste ...

More #sea on #SeaWednesday - this time from the #coast of Northern #Ireland ...

#ownwork #photography #fotografie #foto #photo #Natur #nature  #postprocessed #humanwork 

... nicht einfach eine Tür, sondern ein kleines Kunstwerk zum #silentsunday, dass bei Schnee gleich viel besser zur Geltung kommt ... ☃️

... not just a door, but a small work of art for #silentsunday that looks much better in the snow ... ❄️

#ownwork #photography #fotografie #foto #photo #Natur #nature #tür #door #schilf #reeds #art #postprocessed #humanwork #Handwerk #craft

EQ gets low when markets get rough. You can really differentiate yourself as a manager if you don’t succumb to the pull toward dehumanizing people and treating work like war. #humanwork