it is honestly so ludicrous that the Very Serious People position by both Democrats and Republicans is that there's Nothing To See Here about Jeffrey Epstein

like I don't think it's actually a giant conspiracy I think he was just a guy who has dirt on a lot of people and they are all collectively working in their own individual interests to keep that shit quiet

A research study on using AI coding assistants has shown that while developers believed they got a 20% productivity gain from using the tools, measurement showed a 19% decrease in productivity.

METR recruited 16 open-source devs to complete 246 real coding tasks, randomly assigning each to “AI Allowed” or “AI Disallowed.”

Devs estimated time saved with AI before & after each task, while screen recording to measured real-world AI productivity gains.

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-slowdown

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"Several farmworkers were injured and one died on Friday from injuries sustained after a 30-foot fall from a building during the raid [said @ufwupdates ]. U.S. citizens were detained during the raid and some are still unaccounted for.. Some citizen workers who were detained reported only being released from custody after deleting photos and videos of the raid from their phones"
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