Mastodawn

Very thoughtful analysis by @grimalkina of the experimental design and results from the recent METR study on “the impact of early-2025 AI on experience open-source developer productivity”.

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/are-developers-slowed-down-by-ai-evaluating-an-rct-and-what-it-tells-us-about-developer-productivity/

#metr #cursor

Are developers slowed down by AI? Evaluating an RCT (?) and what it tells us about developer productivity

Seven different people texted or otherwise messaged me about this study which claims to measure “the impact of early-2025 AI on experience open-source developer productivity.” You know, when I decided to become a psychological scientist I never imagined that “teaching research methods so we can actually evaluate evidence about developers”

Fight for the Human

Andrew McNutt 5d ago

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Ben Waber 5d ago

First was a thought-provoking talk by @dom on the importance for HCI researchers to build more interoperable, focused systems at Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DIIkX19ihs (2/5) #HCI

Stanford Seminar - Build less, design more (interactive systems)

May 23, 2025Dominik Moritz, Carnegie Mellon University and AppleData science and machine learning demand innovative visualization approaches to handle the ev...

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Andrew McNutt Jul 8

had a series of troubling dreams last night where i was visited by three ghosts, highlighting that i need to be
a) gentler with myself
b) more mindful
c) better at giving directions
honestly could have been a much worse haunting

Andrew McNutt Jul 6

due to the death of the author, there is nothing you can do to stop me reinterpreting paul simon's "graceland" as a concept album about a road trip featuring numerous dream sequnces

Andrew McNutt Jul 3

Tom MacWright Jul 3

the killer app of vibecoding website generators that let you 'recreate an app in one prompt' is phishing websites, it's just phishing websites, we all know this is how it ends up

Andrew McNutt Jun 30

Yogthos Jun 30

Systemic problems cannot be solved at individual level.

Andrew McNutt Jun 20

pretty interesting paper from the history of science crowd about the state of science in the US. still processing but, as ever, donna haraway goes for the throat

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/00732753251343655

Andrew McNutt Jun 20

Celine Latulipe Jun 19

ACM Creativity & Cognition is happening online next week in Gather. I am the virtual platform chair and I have spent WAY too many hours building a conference space that evokes London, as the 2026 conference will be in person in London.

Fully virtual conferences are accessible to all - sustainable, affordable, equitable, better for folks with caring responsibilities and those unable to travel due to VISA issues. C&C is fully virtual every other year. Join us! @acm_creativitycognition #SIGCHI

Andrew McNutt Jun 19

aaron Jun 19

Steam just added screen reader support in the latest Big Picture Mode beta. On the Deck. On SteamOS. On Linux.
Not hacked in. Not community-patched. Built-in. From Valve.
There's an accessibility tab. There's a screen reader. There's high-contrast mode, UI scaling, color filters, reduced motion, and more.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but: I need a Steam Deck now.
Accessibility isn’t just coming to gaming — it’s here, and it’s official.
Let’s make some noise so they keep going.
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/games/689922/steam-is-adding-screen-reader-support-and-other-accessibility-tools
#Accessibility #Gaming #SteamDeck #ScreenReader #Linux #valve

Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools

Valve’s latest Steam beta adds new accessibility features to Big Picture mode and SteamOS.

The Verge

Andrew McNutt Jun 18

Julia Evans Jun 18

i was just wondering the other day if there's an alternative to `jq` which uses Javascript syntax to filter JSON and there is! it's called `fx` https://fx.wtf/getting-started

(via @indirect: https://andre.arko.net/2025/06/13/2025-06-13-fx/)

Getting Started | fx

A terminal viewer & processor for JSON and YAML (TUI and CLI)