New data: AI makes work easier. And lonelier
New global research from Workday finds that while 62% of employees using AI report reduced burnout and 86% report greater productivity, 43% are more concerned about AI reducing human interaction than …
New global research from Workday finds that while 62% of employees using AI report reduced burnout and 86% report greater productivity, 43% are more concerned about AI reducing human interaction than …
A developer released 25 open-source executable skills for AI coding agents that fix common problems like token waste, bug multiplication, and context loss. The skills, available for Claude, Cursor, Op…
Early-career IT employment in AI-exposed occupations has fallen 16% since ChatGPT's launch, with entry-level software developer roles dropping nearly 20%, threatening the talent pipeline for midlevel …
Samuel Yuan, a developer from MIT, released wavecat, a fully local personal AI agent that continuously watches a user's screen to understand their activity and goals, with all processing and data stor…
Josef Šlerka released an open-source academic-writing kit for Claude Code and Cursor that guides an AI agent through producing a scholarly paper from raw insight to finished study while keeping the hu…
Z.ai open-sourced GLM-5.2 on June 17 under an MIT license, a 744B-parameter sparse MoE model with a 1M-token context window that outperforms GPT-5.5 on multiple coding benchmarks while costing about o…
Yap, a free and open-source offline voice dictation tool for Mac, Windows, and Linux, has been released as an alternative to Wispr Flow and SuperWhisper. It runs locally using Whisper for transcriptio…
A developer built Tablesmit, a free and open-source table builder that focuses on fundamental features like column types, export quality, and smart paste. The tool supports Text, Number, Currency, Per…
A developer built Test Shield, a tool that detects broken callers before deployment by tracing which callers depend on changed functions. The tool was created after a bug fix in a Chinese chess app si…
A developer released nt (navigate tree), a Zsh tool that simplifies managing Git worktrees by allowing users to create, switch, or jump to worktrees with a single command. The tool automatically fast-…
Liquid AI released its LFM2.5-230M foundation model on June 25, outperforming larger competitors like Alibaba's Qwen3.5-0.8B and Google's Gemma 3 1B on data extraction benchmarks. The 230-million-para…
A systems programmer draws parallels between the 1980s AI hype cycle and the current AI boom, warning that overpromises and oversimplification may lead to another AI winter. The author notes that toda…
Besimple AI (YC P25), a startup building data and benchmark infrastructure for voice AI, is hiring a Strategic Projects Lead — Audio Data. The role involves owning complex audio data projects end-to-e…
Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, will cap tuition at 10% of family income for all first-year and transfer students enrolling in fall 2027, aiming to make college more affordable. The policy…
Afrozy Ara, CEO of LuminaData, argues that the AI revolution faces a human coordination problem, not a technology one, as 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable profit-and-loss impact.…
A developer built seven MCP servers to solve coordination failures in East Africa, addressing information asymmetry in payments, insurance, credit, commodity prices, reputation, labor, and drought dat…
Anubhav Rohatgi, senior director of products at Adobe, warns that AI adoption in product development is causing burnout and delivering little measurable value, citing an MIT study that found 95% of en…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that AI will cause an unusually painful disruption to the job market, as it replaces cognitive work across almost every category simultaneously. Gartner predicts that …
A developer with over a decade of web development experience describes their journey using AI tools like Claude Code, emphasizing the importance of harness engineering and critical oversight. They cau…
A new guide outlines eight prompt engineering techniques to improve AI output quality, including assigning roles, specifying formats, providing context, and giving examples. The tips aim to help users…