Small time savings were observed across most use cases, with written tasks presenting the largest time savings. However, some tasks, like scheduling and generating images, incurred additional time to complete the task when participants used M365 Copilot. Additional time to complete tasks was primarily caused by either M365 Copilot being unable to produce high quality outputs or the task being additional workload only completed due to users having M365 Copilot.

This evolution is consistent with the country’s strategic push to move beyond its role as a passive technology recipient and become an active licensor of frontier technologies. This is evident in sectors such as artificial intelligence, green technology and advanced manufacturing, where China’s firms are becoming increasingly competitive and, in some cases, globally dominant. pretty interesting to see the charts the indicate that % of GDP china is growing both in its royalties and exported IP.

I cannot stress enough how bad the code from these agents can be if you’re not careful. While they understand system architecture and how to build something, they can’t keep the whole picture in scope. They will recreate things that already exist. They create abstractions that are completely inappropriate for the scale of the problem. Author hi lights some great observations on using AI. Specifically two I also enjoy. Research+Coding.

But school is not like the rest of life. Success in school is about jumping through the hoops that adults put in front of you; success in life can involve charting your own course. In school, a lot of success is individual: How do I stand out? In life, most success is team-based: How can we work together? Grades reveal who is persistent, self-disciplined, and compliant—but they don’t reveal much about emotional intelligence, relationship skills, passion, leadership ability, creativity, or courage.

Ways to Get Ahead Three components of fast career growth: Luck Talent Grit I do appreciate he put luck first.. as a graduate into the 2008 economic meltdown it certainly felt like bad luck The reality is. You can’t have it all. There are trade offs. Embrace them and optimize. Quote Citation: Sidwyn Koh, “Work-Life Balance Slows Careers (E9 Engineer, ex-Meta)”, 2024-08-31, https://www.pathtostaff.com/p/work-life-balance-slows-careers-e9

ANTHROPIC REVOKED OPENAI’S API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating the terms of service. “Claude Code has become the go-to choice for coders everywhere, and so it was no surprise to learn OpenAI’s own technical staff were also using our coding tools ahead of the launch of GPT-5,” Anthropic spokesperson Christopher Nulty said in a statement to WIRED.

There is, however, some skepticism around the extent to which AI is truly responsible for layoffs. “As a founder, seeking investments, of a company that’s in a public market that trades stock, you don’t want to rattle the market and say ‘Oh we’re actually in a really tough position because we can’t borrow money cheaply and the economic condition isn’t great,’” said Mr. Vu, “You want to be able to at least try to shape the narrative on why your company’s headcount isn’t growing as quickly as it should, and in fact right now, AI certainly seems like a good reason to attribute that to.

Companies building AI dev tools report positive results. Cursor calls it “the smartest coding model we’ve used.” Windsurf says it has “half the tool calling error rate” of other models. Vercel praises its frontend capabilities. Beyond the tool companies, some founders and developers have shared their early experiences. GitHub’s CEO mentioned that GPT-5 shows promise for complex refactoring tasks. Several startup founders have noted improvements in code generation quality, though most emphasize they’re still in early testing phases.

Jason Leverant, the COO and president of AtWork Group, told Newsweek that automation tended to hit jobs that fell into what he called the “Three D’s”: dull, dirty or dangerous. Many white-collar positions in the “dull” category are already being replaced by AI tools. Feels like this is an assertion without citation.. but it has been a rough few years. Quote Citation: Newsweek, “US Hits Highest Layoffs Since COVID - Newsweek”, 2025-08-12, https://www.

Fast forward to today, and that joy of coding is decreasing rapidly. Well, I’m a manager these days, so there’s that… But even when I do get technical, I usually just open Cursor and prompt my way out of 90% of it. It’s way more productive, but more passive as well. I’m not sure I agree with this post.. Yes with AI you can be dangerous again and sling some code.