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Extremely good and concise summary of the statistical/methodological shenanigans involved in measuring the so-called "AI boost" Here's a couple of my favourites:

Software development practices spread using the exact same cognitive biases as beliefs in homeopathy

The world’s "safest" AI provider now runs on the world’s dirtiest data centre: Musk’s Colossus. Powered by 35 methane generators, most unauthorised. A massive slap in the face to locals - led by @keshaunpearson.bsky.social & co - and to all those who thought Claude was the responsible choice 🙄🤢

It's usually more important to develop software right than to do it quickly.

I wrote a blog post.

The WebAIM Million 2026 report is out, it reports on overall accessibility across the web: 1. The number of failures increased 10.1% YOY 2. The average number of page elements increased 22.5%YOY Meaning accessibility progress is backsliding. Personally, I am quite certain this is related to AI.

I created my first Ruby gem. I mostly made it to use on my own projects and to give myself a challenge. I wrote the entire thing without the help of any LLM tools and I learned a lot in the process as a result. github.com/PatrickMcSwe...

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

November ChicagoRuby × @cisco.com — what a night 🔥 Thanks @kphurley.bsky.social & @alan.codegardener.com for making this collab happen. 🎙️ @andycandrea.bsky.social — Reusable JSON Schemas 🎙️ @patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social — Hotwire Your UX Practical, clean, immediately usable.

Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?" apparently, yes

ChicagoRuby meets at one of the world’s biggest Ruby codebases — cisco.com 🔥 Nov 5, 6–8:30 PM 433 W Van Buren St, 7th Fl, Chicago Speakers: patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social, andycandrea.bsky.social ❗️Registration & ID required Registration: www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...

The tech press are Tim levels of cooked. Absolutely nowhere will you see any mention of web apps and PWAs as an alternative to censorious native app stores (I looked), and that's a bloody scandal.

this from ‪@jono.id is a position I've been suggesting for a while now–that modern APIs and CSS like View Transition obviated the need for the SPA architecture. www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...

Using OpenAI's new, powerful "reasoning" model to calculate the amount of states that have R in them. Welcome to the future, everybody

It's been interesting to witness in real-time how the usage of "algorithm" in many places has shifted from a neutral "sequence of instructions" to a negative "controlled ordering and boosting of information".