I've tried this in the past with a Confluence blog, a Slack channel and even a Google Doc – since anyone can create any of those without needing to ask for permission from someone else first Even just writing occasionally about your own projects has a huge ROI on time spent
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Start Internal Blog Newsletter Company Projects Coworkers
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A fun thing you can do at a company if you enjoy writing and talking to people (and have a bit of autonomy to burn) is to pick up an aspect of this as an unofficial role Start an internal blog or newsletter and post news about projects and coworkers once or twice a month!
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Jevons Paradox in AI Efficiency and Economic Impact
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I've seen people reference the Jevons paradox for that and it seems to fit
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AI Tools Increase Developer Value and Employment Opportunities
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My hope is that these tools make software developers /more/ valuable, because now you can hire us and we can build more stuff for you! We might even see companies that didn't used to hire developers at all start employing developers to build them custom software solutions
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Software Engineers Unafraid of AI Tool Obsolescence
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I continue to be entirely unafraid that these tools are going to obsolete my skills as a software engineer
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Vibe Scraping: Emerging Data Extraction Concept in AI
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I think I'm going to call this "vibe scraping"
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AI Models Build Web Scraper and UI in Minutes
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Codex implemented the scraper for me in 13 minutes while I was chatting in a coffee shop, then Claude built me the UI (including the calendar export feature) during a subsequent car journey Full details + prompts and transcripts:
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Building AI-Powered Schedule Interface with Codex and Claude
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I scraped the schedule for @OpenSauceLive this morning and built this alternative schedule interface that includes the option to add everything to your calendar (via ICS)… working entirely on my iPhone, using OpenAI Codex and Claude Artifacts
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Veo 3 Video API Pricing: $45 Per Minute Generation Cost
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75 cents per second for Veo 3 video generation via the new API (or 50 cents per second without audio) – that's $45/minute (or $30/minute silent) and $2,700 (or $1,800) per hour
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Grok 4 AI System Misidentifies Self Based on News Articles
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Grok 4 called itself Hitler for a while, turned out it was running searches and acting based on the news articles about Grok 3