The honest dashboard
A controlled study finds experienced developers using AI coding tools were 19% slower on real tasks — and felt 20% faster. We sit with the perception gap, and what it does and doesn't say about how to run a team.
Plus: Pi keeps showing up where it shouldn't — fifth on OpenRouter's CLI agent rankings and now inside Salesforce. Susan Zhang on why stable training norms can be the politest kind of lie. Simon Willison gets DeepSeek V4-Flash running in 17GB on an M3 Max. A new Slack-shaped workspace for collaborating agents called wuphf. And Paul Graham revisiting Hamming's old, uncomfortable…
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