AI & Future of Work
Authoritative dossiers, architectural analyses, and field reports on AI & Future of Work
The Rise of AI Assistants in Software Development: Beyond Autocomplete
The AI Co-Pilot's Ascent: What the Data Actually Says About AI in Software Development The tools got dramatically better. The productivity story got more complicated.
Stop Counting Saved Minutes: Building AI Workflows That Survive Contact With Reality
A build blueprint for client-onboarding automation — with the failure modes, the real costs, and the arithmetic most guides skip.
The Real Cost of AI APIs: A Token-by-Token Breakdown of Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini
An in-depth technical analysis of the token-based pricing for Claude, GPT-4 Turbo, and Gemini APIs, dissecting their underlying costs, economic realities, and future architectural trends for developers and businesses.
A Real Study Timed AI Coding Tools Against Human Developers. The Result Wasn't What Anyone Expected
METR ran a randomized controlled trial on experienced open-source developers using AI coding tools on real issues in their own repositories. The developers thought AI made them 20% faster. The stopwatch said they were 19% slower.
AI Agents That Can Use Your Computer: What's Actually Real in 2026, and What's Still a Demo
"AI agents that click around your screen for you" has gone from research demo to shipping product in under two years. Here's what the two biggest players actually measure, in their own published numbers — and where they still fall over.