A study of 1,488 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity
On New Year's Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms …
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity
On New Year's Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms …
A programmer estimates his typical day of coding with Claude Code is equivalent to running the dishwasher an extra time, much more energy than a “median query”
Most of the discourse about the environmental impact of LLM use focuses on a ‘median query.’ What about a Claude Code session?
Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral. — Game developer Rebecca Heineman has died after being diagnosed with cancer last month.
GitHub debuts an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve documentation, and more, and open sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Body — I find the following two news items on the front page: Thomas Dohmke / The GitHub Blog : GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent Visual Studio Code : VS Code: Open Source AI Editor The GitH...
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool
and it could be a game changer Ghacks : Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.7: First Hybrid Reasoning AI Model Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : Claude enters the reasoning era Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India...
CrowdStrike says a Falcon sensor configuration update on Windows triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD, remediated after 78 minutes
Thankfully, Macs weren't affected by last week's catastrophic … Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: What caused last week's major tech outage? CrowdStrike : Likely eCrime Actor Uses Filenames...
GitHub unveils Copilot Workspace, a developer environment using “Copilot-powered agents” to help brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code in natural language
where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software in natural language. Anand Chowdhary / @anandchowdhary : Today, GitHub Copilot Workspace was announced, and it's the best GitHub product I've...
John Walker, a computer programmer and co-founder of 3D design software maker Autodesk, died on February 2 at the age of 75
John Walker, a computer programmer and co-founder of 3D design software maker Autodesk, died on February 2 at the age of 75
Very sad news on the passing on John Walker, programmer and co-founder of AutoDesk. His contributions to our industry, the rise of the PC, and the modern industrialization of nearly everything were in...