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arXiv:2604.28181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Realistic long-horizon productivity work is strongly conditioned on user-specific computer environments, where much of the work context is stored and or

🆕 Tokenmaxxing, Productivity, & internal AI Platforms @swyx in conversation with @GergelyOrosz, Editor of The Pragmatic Engineer on the phenomenon of 'tokenmaxxing,' whether AI productivity is 'real',

the difference in productivity between 0-1 mode vs. working within a big team at a large co seems universally true even pre-chatgpt. it's really easy to be 'productive' when (a) you're the only person

Mistral AI has released Mistral Vibe, an AI agent designed for long-horizon productivity and coding tasks, featuring Work mode, Code mode, a CLI, and additional capabilities. The product consolidates

AI productivity is best measured by connecting AI usage to validated downstream outcomes. Tokens, prompts, and generated lines show activity, but they do not prove value. A better measurement model tr

Francois Chollet argues that decision-making, rather than execution, is the true limiting factor in productivity. He defines productivity as the rate at which one makes open-ended decisions and reduce

arXiv:2606.02953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Usage-based theories of grammars posit that creative productivity of the structures of language is both bolstered and constrained by two distinct freque

In a capitalist economy, absolute levels of value creation and productivity take a backseat to relative competitive advantage. That's why jobs still exist despite 150 years of intense automation. As l

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent — Google is te

Striking paper from Wharton. The big conclusion: AI must increase productivity 2.7x -- and quickly -- or tech companies risk bankruptcy with all that entails for the economy. For context: this is how

AI should earn its keep. Introducing the AI Productivity Guarantee. If Devin delivers less engineering value than you’re paying for, Cognition will fund your usage until it does, up to $10 million. It

OpenAI's Codex is evolving beyond code generation to become a general productivity tool accessible to non-programmers for knowledge work tasks. The tool leverages large language models to assist with

arXiv:2510.12049v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We quantify the short-term impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on sales performance through a series of large-scale randomize

arXiv:2605.01160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Since 2022, AI-powered coding assistants have produced contradictory evidence: controlled studies report 20-56% productivity gains on well-scoped task

Andreas Rinke / Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's “regulatory burden” on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity — Germany's Chancellor Fr

arXiv:2604.05172v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed to automate productivity tasks (e.g., email, scheduling, document management), but evalu

SPACEXAI: Grok 4.6 leads on the two strongest knowledge-work / real-world productivity benchmarks (GDPVal-AA and AA-Briefcase) and on the legal benchmark, while remaining highly competitive on coding-

arXiv:2607.28968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Renault, Bergeaud, and Bosquet (hereafter RBB) argue that dating LLM adoption as the first month in which an author's abstract is flagged induces a st

arXiv:2607.26375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents (e.g., Cursor) improve developer productivity by optimizing task completion, but shifting users from writing code to prompting and reviewi

Just yesterday an engineer posted 'open swe is my favorite productivity tool at the moment' in slack Open source wins! Sierra isn't the first to build this - Ramp, Stripe, CoinBase also have If you wa

Sam Fleming / Financial Times: How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge — Region

Token spending should be understood as organizational research and development rather than purely a productivity cost, representing an investment in discovering how to restructure business processes a

Code volume is not a reliable metric for measuring developer productivity, as writing more lines of code does not necessarily correlate with delivering more value or solving problems more effectively.

arXiv:2606.01234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The GDP of a country is modelled as the relative interaction between two agents - working hours, reflecting the social choice of a population, and Tot

Patricia Cohen / New York Times: How Schneider Electric is using AI in call centers and manufacturing to complement employees' work and boost productivity, rather than to replace them — For many chief

Developer productivity is hard to manage. Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in

We have, as far as I can tell, no good tests of the productivity impact of the autonomous coding tools that appeared starting in December 2025. Every paper out there is from prior to the Claude Code/C

Thinking of AI as a productivity booster for prior workflows is the wrong framing. Like all of the previous waves of computerization/softwarization, AI is a tool that lets you do new things in new way

The quantity of code that devs ship has roughly 10xed. But net developer productivity (value created by unit of time) is only up by a bit, if at all. Part of it is that the additional code is solving

Gary Marcus argues that despite 3.5 years of rapid AI development and deployment, there is minimal empirical evidence that AI has significantly impacted overall economic productivity metrics. The post

Post-agentic: Encouraging firms to use agentic tools (Claude Code/Lovable/N8N...) markedly improves startup growth & productivity. Pre-agentic: Encouraging firms to use a GPT4 advisor has uneven effec

Together AI announced a partnership or initiative with the 17 DOE National Laboratories aimed at doubling American scientific productivity within a decade. The collaboration leverages Together AI's co

🤖 This debate is largely a matter of productivity gains-@a_bergeaud's latest book is a must read to easily understand why ! 📈 With @BunelSimon @XJaravel @tmikaelsen @alexandraroulet J.Søgaard we found

arXiv:2608.03585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-source software communities are a form of digital public infrastructure that not only produces code, but also generates public knowledge and interp

arXiv:2605.18143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is transforming how firms create, process, and apply knowledge, yet little is known about the heterogeneity o

Adobe Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence experience embedded in its ubiquitous PDF document reader and creator, Acrobat, to transform how people create, understand and share information.

I'm working on a computer game as a side project. I started it around 4 years ago, before I used any AI for coding. For most of that time I wrote everything myself. Later I started using GitHub Copilo

OpenAI Group PBC today released a set of features that will make it easier for nontechnical people to use its Codex automation tool. The update comes five months after Anthropic PBC added similar capa

Agent risk management is evolving rapidly as AI moves into consequential decision-making arenas, collapsing the boundary between human and machine risk across the enterprise. The dual-threat landscape

Google Cloud has long believed that one of most compelling benefits of artificial intelligence is that it helps people get more work done faster, and that’s the main purpose behind a slate of new capa

The Shopify skill for Hermes Agent enables integration with Shopify e-commerce platforms, likely allowing automated interactions with store management, product listings, orders, and customer data thro

The most female-led product org in tech right now: Chief Product Officer: Ami Vora Claude Code/Cowork Head of Product: Cat Wu Claude Code/Cowork Head of Eng: Fiona Fung Claude Platform Head of Product

We recently announced the preview of the BigQuery AI.AGG() function. With AI.AGG(), you can use natural-language instructions within a single line of SQL to summarize or synthesize information over mi

Together Serverless Inference gives developers a managed production path for bringing FLUX 3 into creative products and automated media workflows. Start building: https://www.together.ai/models/flux-3

Vector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search alone isn't enough. While vector embeddings are

arXiv:2604.18800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study online learning for new products on a platform that makes capacity-constrained assortment decisions on which products to offer. For a newly l