Switching from GPT-5.5 to GPT-5.6 Made Me Less Productive
I pay for three Codex subscriptions at $200 each, and for the past week they have mostly bought me waiting. Since I switched from…
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The AI Productivity Trap Is More Output
AI makes it dirt cheap to generate code, draft tickets, summarize meetings, and write proposals. But cheaper generation doesn't mean the work actually gets…
Read postIf Software Gets 90 Percent Cheaper, Who Captures the Savings?
Imagine AI can code at a much higher rate. It’s easy to think development is going to get a lot cheaper. But if writing…
Read postThe AI Coding Era Makes Boring Tests More Valuable
Agents can now produce cheap, plausible diffs. A developer can describe a bug, give it to an agent, and get a patch with tests…
Read postOpen Source Maintainers Need a Spam Filter for AI Labor
AI makes bug reports, pull requests, and security disclosures cheap to create, but expensive to review. Still need to reproduce issues, check compatibility, judge…
Read postThe Junior Developer Problem Is Becoming a Senior Developer Problem
AI is fundamentally changing how junior developers learn, but it’s also making senior developers a whole lot less valuable if all they’re doing is…
Read postVibe Code Is Legacy Code Before It Ships
Vibe coding is useful and fast. Nearly a quarter of the YC W25 batch apparently has codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated. This is…
Read postAI Code That Passes Tests Can Still Fail Review
CI green does not mean the patch is mergeable. When a coding agent has produced a change that compiles, passes the target tests, and…
Read postAnthropic’s AI Jobs Paper
Anthropic recently published a policy paper about AI, jobs, and what governments should do if AI causes major labor-market disruption. The original paper is…
Read postAnthropic is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried
Anthropic is starting to act like a company preparing for public markets: protecting margins, tightening access. The gap between the brand and the behavior…
Read postHow China’s Shadow AI API Market Works
China's shadow market offers access to Claude, Gemini, GPT, and other frontier models. Pay a local seller, get an API endpoint, connect it to…
Read postAI Will Not Make Everyone More Productive
When everyone gets access to AI, not everyone becomes more efficient. Some people and companies will become much faster while some may become even…
Read postThe End of Claude Code Automation
Starting June 15, Anthropic is moving automated Claude Code usage out of the normal subscription bucket. claude -p usage will now count against a…
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