#InnovationTheater: Heavy metal’s hot in payment cards

Credit card issuers are doubling down on heavier, stiffer metals as consumers seek to convey affluence and innovation through payment cards.

https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/heavy-metals-hot-in-payment-cards/809291/

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Heavy metal’s hot in payment cards

Credit card issuers are doubling down on heavier, stiffer metals as consumers seek to convey affluence and innovation through payment cards.

Payments Dive
Ah, the SWE-bench drama unfolds, revealing that our dear Git history leaks are skewing results. 🎭 But fear not, GitHub's got your back with more AI buzzwords and shiny features to distract you from actually solving any problems. 🚀#InnovationTheater
https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465 #SWEbenchDrama #GitHistoryLeaks #GitHubAI #InnovationTheater #SoftwareDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
Repo State Loopholes During Agentic Evaluation · Issue #465 · SWE-bench/SWE-bench

We've identified multiple loopholes with SWE Bench Verified where agents may look at future repository state (by querying it directly or through a variety of methods), and cases in which future rep...

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In recent years the shine of #DesignThinking has been wearing off. Critics have argued that its #ShortTerm focus on novel and naive #ideas has resulted in unrealistic and ungrounded recommendations. It has reinforced existing #inequities rather than challenging them. Years in #InnovationTheater — checking a series of boxes without implementing meaningful shifts—had become endemic in corporate settings.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/09/1067821/design-thinking-retrospective-what-went-wrong/

#DecisionMaking #BusinessStakeholders #DEI via @technologyreview

Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.

MIT Technology Review