Bookmarks tagged “productivity”
114 bookmarks tagged “productivity”
You Might Want to Try Being Less Creative
Trying to be original everywhere keeps you from getting anywhere
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40,000 plays
Results from AI agent permission game: which attacks beat human reviewers, and which safe commands got blocked instead.
Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer - Stack Overflow
The “find the special ones and promote their traits” approach isn’t the best or only way to drive AI adoption and productivity on an engineering team.
Loop Engineering
You don't really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you. It's five building blocks plus s...
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
I Didn't Become a Developer to Review AI Slop
AI makes PRs cheap, but trust is still expensive. Why developers are stuck reviewing endless AI slop and how automated code review can fix the bottleneck.
Agentic Code Review
Coding agents are extraordinarily good now, and getting better fast. The interesting consequence is that the hard part of engineering moved from writing code...
You shipped it fast. But did you ship it right? - Stack Overflow
Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…
Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds
“We wanted to see if a simple walk might lead to more free-flowing thoughts and more creativity.”
Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue - Stack Overflow
Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.
Why AI hasn't replaced human expertise—and what that means for your SaaS stack - Stack Overflow
The most valuable AI tools in your enterprise stack do more than generate answers. They help developers determine which answers to trust.
The peril of laziness lost
In his classic Programming Perl — affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" — Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris: If we’re going to talk about good software design, we have to talk a
AI is becoming a second brain at the expense of your first one - Stack Overflow
Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.
Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t.
The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.
The Strange Case of Engineers Who Dismiss AI
Some engineers dismiss AI coding tools as ‘garbage’ without trying modern versions. Their outdated opinions are costing them.
Giving Up Is Also Giving | nik.art
Sometimes, it’s harder to not do something than to keep going. We don’t want to lose that piece of our identity. But what might we gain if we let go? Time? Money? Inner peace? Giving up isn’t always an act of generosity, but it is always an act of giving. It takes energy to say [
Life Happens at 1x Speed
Why I stopped consuming content at 2x speed, and the simple rule that changed how I listen to everything.
Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'
Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.
Manual Work is a Bug: A.B.A: always be automating
Every IT team should have a culture of constant improvement - or movement along the path toward the goal of automating whatever the team feels confident in automating, in ways that are easy to change as conditions change. As the needle moves to the right, the team learns from eac
Beyond speed: Measuring engineering success by impact, not velocity - Stack Overflow
If velocity is just a tool and not a goal, how do you measure real success for engineering teams?
