LLMs and performative productivity
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
Kanjun 🐙 on Twitter / X
I've always felt it weird to treat agents as team members. To me, computing is a creative medium where each step expands what I imagine to be possible. Something about the "team member" frame feels creativity-dampening. Not sure why, can't put my finger on it 🤔 https://t.co/CWT3QFVh3x— Kanjun 🐙 (@kanjun) October 1, 2026
Hiring and firing a DBA
Hiring our DBA For the past sixty days, Buttondown ran a scheduled LLM invocation once a day. Every morning it would look at the previous few days of databas...
LLMs and performative productivity
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub
We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design
Our second developer productivity study faces selection effects from wider AI adoption, prompting us to redesign our approach.
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026 · GitHub
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