A new NBER paper tracks 500,000+ GitHub developers against their actual AI telemetry. The task-level gains are enormous and they mostly don't survive the trip to a shipped release. Across four app marketplaces: a sharp rise in new apps, no rise in total usage.
Most of the AI-productivity argument you've read this year is two camps shouting single numbers at each other. There's a paper out that makes both camps right and is more useful than either, and the revised version went up this month, so it's worth twenty minutes before you write your Q4 plan.
End of the day: shut everything so tomorrow starts clean
Before gaming or a recording: free the machine
Focus reset: close the tabs I've been "coming back to" for a week
None. I upvoted because it looked neat and I won't use it
And the one I really want: if you looked and did NOT install, what stopped you? Closed source, telemetry, "I can just Cmd-Q", two clicks instead of one, no Spotify exception, SmartScreen warning, something else. Say it plainly. I would rather build the version you'd actually keep than defend this one.
