Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.*

It’s just one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still....

(There must be a name for the psychological trick we play on ourselves to believe we’re being more productive even when we’re considerably less so.)

Hat tip: Dave Martin

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

New comiCSS cartoon: Sheriff
https://comicss.art/comics/190/

Today's comic is about the web and fonts. Can you find all the differences?

#css #webdev #font #comic

A while ago I was talking to a researcher and he was like “a few years ago through field research I found out that __ and wrote about it, it was such an exciting find” and then added “and it’s amazing how smart ChatGPT is, recently I asked it the same thing, and it came to the same conclusion as I did in my research!”

My man, ChatGPT didn’t come to the same conclusion you did and it isn’t smart. It stole words from your article and didn’t give you credit.

That’s not amazing, that’s plagiarism.

As a user of @GrapheneOS , one feature I am missing is positioning without GPS (indoors). Looks like they are now working on it. For this to work properly, the project @beacondb is collecting data. Please consider contributing to this project.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/17089-users-contribute-location-data-for-future-network-location-usage