Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

This reminds of me a bit about how email changed the work place. Yeah, I'm old, I worked in offices before we had email there. At first, email was a great improvement, but then came the tsunami of emails. It was so easy to send, people started sending far too many. Then everyone is drowning in it, wiping away most of the productivity gains.

In my minimal experience coding with #AI, it is clear to me that #botsitting work is really draining. There are so many other boring things I'd rather be doing, and they don't take much of my energy. So there does seem to be some small #productivity gains from using AI, it would end up making my quality of life worse. So I'll happily stick to getting in the zone, and just rolling with the boilerplate, refactoring chores, etc. until I see these tools make me happier

https://www.glean.com/work-ai-institute/reports/work-ai-index-report

So the #iPhone could be part of the solution for #ClimateChange! The wealthy of the world all get them, then have a fewer kids, and therefore fewer top #consumers in the world 😜 https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/09/study-links-iphone-rollout-to-decline-in-us-birth-rates/5253138

oh funny someone published an academic research paper on this, the abstract sounds interesting: https://www.nber.org/papers/w34910

anyone know anything about it?

Could there be an "uncanny valley" of #AI #LLM #bullshit, where the error rates are low enough that humans get lazy and stop checking, which then leads to higher error rates than when humans did it without AI. Unfortunately, the current #BigTech business models prioritize #adoption and #engagement, so that will bias them towards ignoring this affect.

And what I find quite funny is that maybe a third of the phone call would be taken up with the standard Austrian pleasantries one must use, including a proper greeting and minimum two forms of goodbye 😉

Someone should do a quantitative #productivity analysis of #Debian's #workflow vs #Microsoft's for #Windows, or #Google's for #Android which both surely include #LLM #AI tricks that this point. I'd bet both those companies have done that internally. Any chance of leaks? 😉 So much of how Debian works is in public, so anyone could do some kind of analysis.

I've been an early adopter of #Internet things for decades, but at the same time, I work to be able to realistically assess the value as compared to other methods. Many things in #Austria still happen in person and via the #telephone, so its a good testing ground. I'm frequently surprised at how #efficient in-person/telephone can be when compared to #online, like government offices have employees that handle making appointments by phone, they are often really good at it, so its surprisingly fast

The #internet is full of fun locking #garden #hack ideas for all sorts of things but almost always, they use #toxic materials that you really don't want leaching into your #soil. Even common #plastics like water bottles or #polypropylene turn quite toxic when exposed to #sunlight for a while. For example, https://rosal.web.uah.es/pub/Aquatic%20toxicity%20of%20commercial%20polypropylene%20and%20associated%20chemicals.pdf

At this beginning stage of the death spiral of #BigTech, they will become more #dangerous than before. They still have immense #power and resources, but the remaining employees will be more obedient and transactional since that's what it takes to keep your job amid #layoffs. The principled employees left as "don't be evil" was phased out, as AI was sold to militaries for offensive use, etc. I bet we'll see more technically adept shady behavior than before, for example, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016740482600026X

Hey UX designers of the world! And all you people making #software! How about we stop making ever more complicated methods of managing #notifications, #DoNotDisturb, #DigitalWellness etc and instead focus on reducing the amount of time-on-screen spent for each task? We need to stop thinking about #engagement and think about #efficiency. We need to recognize the nature of #DigitalMedia makes us forget about the analog world. Being #online exacerbates that.