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Photo: Teemu / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source Rushed work costs more, but never the people who ordered it
Why organisations keep choosing speed over understanding, even after being burned: the people who order rushed work rarely pay for the cleanup.
Photo: CMyrick-WMF / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source A Developer Retypes Every Line of AI Code by Hand
A developer retypes AI-generated code by hand to avoid what he calls cognitive debt — shipping software nobody on the team actually understands.
Photo: National Labor Relations Board / Public domain · source Wikimedia Foundation Rejects Staff Union, Demands Federal Ballot
Wikimedia Foundation rejected fast-track union recognition for Wikipedia's staff, demanding an NLRB election and hiring law firm Littler Mendelson.
Photo: LA2 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source Essential English Vocabulary Dropped Flour and Added Mortgage
A 1953 list of essential English words and its 2023 replacement differ by 1,700 entries. The change tracks a shift from manual work to institutions.
Photo: NASA / Dominic Hart / Public domain · source Google DeepMind software now controls humanoid robots that walk
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 controls walking humanoids, five-fingered hands and robot teams. What it can actually do, and what it still can't.
Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Jason Jacobowitz / Public domain · source AI firms are hiring electricians and carpenters by the thousands
AI firms are recruiting and training electricians, carpenters and pipefitters to build data centres. Why the boom is real — and why it may not last.