How do you measure an increase in personal productivity?
Here are two relevant metrics:
1) You work fewer hours and thus gain more leisure hours.
2) Your personal income after expenses increases without increasing the number of hours of work.
IMO anything else is just faux productivity, an increase in busywork, productivity theater with little or no personal value.
"The closure of 'tabacs' (small local café-bars in France) contributes to the progression of far-right voting... regardless of immigration, unemployment or other economic indicators...
"Symmetrically, the opening of tabacs is associated with a decline in far-right voting, suggesting that these dynamics are not irreversible.
"No other commercial closure produces a comparable effect. The specificity of tabacs lies in their function as a place of socialisation... The effects are three times stronger in rural communities, where these establishments often constitute the last place of sociability...
"When places of sociability disappear, politics becomes a face-off between atomised individuals and national media narratives."
I'm concerned about what the proliferation of #LLM agents is doing to communal knowledge, and my mind keeps drawing parallels between what we see happening here and disasters that farming malpractices caused in the early to mid 20th century.
In a way, we are repeating the same errors, just with a different medium. Warnings from experts are being ignored, recommended practices are being skipped in favour of expediency and short-term gain.
Are we witnessing the making of the first digital Dust Bowl?
OpenClaw is averaging 1.8 CVEs *PER DAY* https://days-since-openclaw-cve.com/
That's... wow. New high score!
So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function
Absolutely pathetic
"I used AI. It worked. I hated it." by @mttaggart https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
This is a really good blogpost. And I"m sure it'll make some people unhappy to read whether they're pro or anti genAI. What's good about @mttaggart's blogpost is he talks honestly about how using Claude Code did actually solve the problem he set out to do. It needed various guardrails, but they were possible to set up, and the project worked. But the post is also completely clear and honest about how miserable it was:
- It removed the joy from the process
- If you aim to do the right thing and carefully evaluate the output, your job ends up eventually becoming "tapping the Y key"
- Ramifications on people learning things
- Plenty of other ethical analysis
- And the nagging wonder whether to use it next time, despite it being miserable.
I think this is important, because it *is* true that these tools are getting to the point where they can accomplish a lot of tasks, but the caveat space is very large (cotd)
The fact that we are *not* seeing wildly improving software all around us tells us everything we need to know.
There is no flourishing of value delivery, new product categories, more needs being satisfied better. It’s the opposite.
All we are seeing is decreases in quality, because 👏 code 👏 creation 👏 is not 👏 the problem.
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