Every time I’ve built or inherited a team, one trait rises above all others: ownership. Do you ship? Do you own it when it breaks? Do you make the system better for the next person? Also buried as a footnote ‘business > tech’. Being great at problem solving means being great at whatever tools solve it the most efficiently. Quote Citation: Ben Howdle, “How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects”, 02 Apr 2025, https://benhowdle.

we found out that at least 65% of this resource-consuming traffic we get for the website is coming from bots, a disproportionate amount given the overall pageviews from bots are about 35% of the total. This high usage is also causing constant disruption for our Site Reliability team, who has to block overwhelming traffic from such crawlers before it causes issues for our readers. I do wonder about the future of internet.

Long-term maintainability: This is the most insidious impact radius because it has the longest feedback loop, these issues might only be caught weeks and months later. These are the types of cases where the code will work fine for now, but will be harder to change in the future. Unfortunately, it’s also the category where my 20+ years of programming experience mattered the most. Article covering all the ways an expert engineering had to guide AI, out of pitfalls, away from landmines and most importantly towards a long-term sustainable architecture.

Industry leaders don’t have a good track record of predicting AI developments. … As an example, Sutskever had an incentive to talk up scaling when he was at OpenAI and the company needed to raise money. But now that he heads the startup Safe Superintelligence, he needs to convince investors that it can compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others, despite having access to much less capital. Perhaps that is why he is now talking about running out of data for pre-training, as if it were some epiphany and not an endlessly repeated point.

We found an average time savings of 5.4% of work hours in the November 2024 survey. For an individual working 40 hours per week, saving 5.4% of work hours implies a time savings of 2.2 hours per week. When we factor in all workers, including nonusers, workers saved 1.4% of total hours because of generative AI. Note this is across all disciplines. Some tasks are more easily assisted by AI than others.

Some economists say these trends may be short term in nature and little cause for concern on their own. Lawrence Katz, a labor economist at Harvard, noted that the uptick in unemployment for college-educated workers was only modestly larger than the increase in unemployment overall, and that unemployment for both groups remained low by historical measures. I think this is like the quote I know that goes ‘when your neighbor gets laid off, its a recession.

In late March, BYD surpassed Tesla TSLA in quarterly automotive revenue for the first time. This was no symbolic flourish, but an outright coup. This isn’t a case of catching up. It’s charging ahead. Buffett, meanwhile, recently reiterated his enthusiasm for BYD at Berkshire’s 2024 annual meeting: “Charlie [Munger] twice pounded the table … and said, ‘Buy BYD.’ He was right — big time.” Ironically I learned about BYD while TikTok was banned and I explored Xioahongshu for a little while.

Health insurers got double-paid by the Medicaid system for the coverage of hundreds of thousands of patients across the country, costing taxpayers billions of dollars in extra payments. The insurers, which are paid by state and federal governments to cover low-income Medicaid recipients, collected at least $4.3 billion over three years for patients who were enrolled—and paid for—in other states, a Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicaid data found.

Thune, a fourth-term senator from South Dakota, is an awkward leader for Trump’s ruthless Republican Party, in part because even Democrats invariably describe him as amiable and honest. Excellent tracing of the new Senate majority leader’s rise to power and what it means for the separation of powers when the current Executive Branch is pursuing rule by fiat. Quote Citation: David D. Kirkpatrick, “The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance”, March 31, 2025, https://www.

The benefits of AI-driven automation often favour capital over labour, which could widen inequality and reduce the competitive advantage of low-cost labour in developing economies. However, the UNCTAD report also highlights inequalities between nations, with U.N. data showing that 40% of global corporate research and development spending in AI is concentrated among just 100 firms, mainly those in the U.S. and China. First, original story is pay-walled for journalist only, so I was unable to review that.