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The market is telling us that we should be 3x more productive with AI. What if that productivity gain is just an AI working 24 hours a day while a human works eight?
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15 September
14 September
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korrents.com
Over time the allocation of humans to tasks will evolve so that more humans become more productive, not less.Their words
Do note that over time the allocation of humans to tasks will evolve so that more of the humans become more productive, not less.
Does AI assistance enhance or erode expertise?marginalrevolution.com
11 September
10 September
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Resources that are currently dedicated to A.I. would not otherwise sit idle.
9 September
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korrents.com
A powerful new technology that benefits only part of society is inherently politically destabilizing.Their words
It's highly destabilizing to have such a transformative, productive tool only bring half of society along.
4 September
2 September
26 August
From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The current tech layoffs are pandemic over-hiring correcting itself, with AI as the convenient excuse.Their words
And I think what we're seeing right now with some of the layoffs is a testament to that, not AI. It's just that during the pandemic, a bunch of overhiring went on, and now AI is a convenient excuse to slim down. But I do also think AI is going to expose some roles as just not being productive ways for humans to spend their time, and therefore we must come up with new ways of spending their time.
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The other thing I'd say is that most organizations don't know what they want. They don't know how to make it better. They're not bottlenecked on implementation. They're bottlenecked on ideas. They're bottlenecked on vision. They're bottlenecked on taste. And if you don't have those element in excess of your implementational capacity, it doesn't help. So you can make a lot of shitty ideas come true, then what?
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Then there's another possibility which is that it actually already has worked but just the productivity boost isn't as big as would be obvious if people got 10% more productive. That would still be pretty impressive because it's hard to get a 10% across the board uplift.
20 August
16 August
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Readrcmnd.app
The God DelusionTheir words
Militant atheism is entertaining, but generally counter productive.
7 August
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22 July
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The two seemingly contradictory trends connect, because the relatively low rate of productive investment leaves European industry vulnerable to its most vigorous competitors whose firms are contending with an even more deflationary macroeconomic situation at home in China.
1 July
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korrents.com
A coach's job is to identify and induce productive discomfort, not to reassure people that they are doing fine.Their words
It's not always pleasant. It's not a pat you on the head and you're going to be fine. It's a It's a don't like no, you're screwing this up. Go try this thing. Tell me how that works. Oh, you didn't try the thing. Oh, you don't want to work on this? Okay, we're done. Quite uncompromising. uh I say coaches are are there to identify and induce productive discomfort
10 June
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korrents.com
People will matter more in an AI future, not less, and giving them better tools is what makes that future a good one.Their words
I think like people are really important and I think we'll be more important in the future and giving people more tools to be more productive is going to be like a critical part of any kind of positive future
4 June
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things have to go really wrong for us to like just get over the threshold of uh you know, capital being productive enough to automate lots of work, but not be productive enough that that the interest rate is high and or the price of capital produced goods is falling a lot, okay? So, even without redistribution, a little bit of savings will save a lot of people.
30 May
13 April
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Classroom activities like grammar drills and vocabulary tests feel productive. You are doing something. But none of it builds the network your brain actually needs.
23 March
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11 March
From one piece From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Because they're all starting to spend their own salaries in tokens. And so, at least for a while, if you want your engineers to be as productive as possible, you're going to have to get rid of half of them to make the other half maximally productive.
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You might only get three productive hours out of a person at max vibe coding speed. And yet they're still 100 times as productive as they would have been without AI. So, do you let them work for 3 hours a day? And the answer is yeah, you better.
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let's say an engineer can be 100 times as productive, just just for sake of argument, all right? Who captures that value? If the if the engineer goes to work and works for 8 hours a day and produces 100 times as much, the company captured all of that value.
10 March
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Likedrcmnd.app
TailwindCSSTheir words
TailwindCSS - A great way to keep my styling consistent and stay productive.
7 March
3 March
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korrents.com
Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.Their words, before
All the best, happiest, and most creatively productive times in my life have something in common: being disconnected.
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Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to fill.
15 February
13 February
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Like we see the end productivity every few months in the form of model launches. Like there's no kidding yourself about this. Like the models make you more productive.
8 January
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I don’t think this is very productive (expert users of a piece of software are notoriously bad at being able to tell if an explanation will be clear to non-experts), so I needed to find a way to identify problems with the man pages that was a little more evidence-based.
28 October 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped OffTheir words
Raymond Biesinger's new book 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off is a masterclass in how creative workers can transform the endless, low-grade seething about the endless ripoffs of the industry into something productive and even profound
30 September 2025
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And you're supposed to be really connected, but the conclusion you reach very early is that the more connected and accessible you are, the less productive you are.
18 August 2025
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And in contrast to software as a service or software you'd buy off a shelf at, you know, Fry Electronics, you know, decades ago, which might help you be marginally more productive, help you get a job done. Agents, in contrast, are actually getting the job done for you. And so you're in essence hiring software to accomplish a task and get it done well.
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korrents.com
A software engineer who is not using a tool like Cursor is working at half productivity or worse.Their words
it's like if you're a software engineer and you're not using something like cursor to do your job, you're probably being half as productive or even worse than you could be.
2 August 2025
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korrents.com
AI tools are already making scientists more productive and creative, and more discoveries should follow.Their words
AI tools are helping make scientists more productive and creative already, and more discoveries should follow.
AI could help lead to an Alzheimer's cureblog.jacobtrefethen.com
23 July 2025
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korrents.com
AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.Their words
So the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10X even what they are today. And because there, you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.
29 April 2025
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korrents.com
Exposure to competition in tradeable sectors makes those sectors more productive than non-tradable ones.Their words
This is why tradeable sectors are generally more productive than non-tradable ones.
16 March 2025
16 December 2024
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
14 Habits of Highly Productive DevelopersTheir words
a short and sweet book, with good inspiration from prolific software engineers.
1 November 2024
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korrents.com
A multi-ethnic society only gets the benefits of diversity if it deliberately builds a shared national identity.Their words
However, productive collaborations are not inevitable. Just look at ethnic violence in South-East Asia or Hindu Nationalism in India. Nation-building is really valuable, learning from multi-ethnic, democratic Indonesia.
9 June 2024
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My hot take is that JS has the lowest bar of entry to building and being productive (a good thing) but one of the highest bars of any language and stack to building high quality, stable, and reliable software. Very few devs have the expertise to pull off the latter
13 March 2024
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korrents.com
Making American farms more productive shrinks cropland in the rest of the world by more than it adds at home.Their words
Nelson Villoria estimates that for every 1% gain in Total Factor Productivity (inputs required per unit of output) in the US, croplands in the rest of the world shrink by 0.7%.
17 April 2023
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Our species isn’t going to quit beef anytime soon, so we’re going to have to fix beef.
10 June 2022
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korrents.com
The field calling itself AI safety is not being remotely productive on the problems that are actually lethal.Their words
It does not appear to me that the field of ‘AI safety’ is currently being remotely productive on tackling its enormous lethal problems.
1 June 2022
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A low r is actually a signal that something is wrong with the economy: In effect, if we think of the safe rate as the risk-adjusted rate of return on capital, the low safe rate is sending the signal that, risk adjusted, the return on capital is low.
28 May 2022
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Likedrcmnd.app
GhosttyTheir words
Combination of Oh My Zsh with Ghostty terminal makes the terminal more informative and productive. Enhanced with plugins like zsh-autosuggestions and fzf.
19 April 2022
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