A bit of a mixed bag today. Good reads are the Agents and the Era of Overproduction and AI reshaping values at Enode blog posts. Podcast-wise, give Driverless World and the Pedro Sánchez episode a listen.
Leadership
TBM 418: Campfires, Trails, and Quests - collection of how AI affects teams.
AI productivity gains are 10%, not 10x - that makes my estimated 10-20% look optimistic.
Engineering
Dependency-cooldown discussions warm up [LWN] - this seems like a bad idea overall.
Agents and the Era of Overproduction - I am worried about the maintenance and expectations.
The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic - maybe not as bad as we thought.
Design isn’t dying. It’s shifting left. - fun interactive elements. I am not sure it added anything new.
What Claude Design actually changes for designers - This makes the assumption that we create everything from scratch.
How AI is reshaping our values at Enode - “is there something I’m currently delegating, escalating, or waiting on that I could own with AI’s help?”
Urbanism
In a Driverless World, Who Loses and Who Wins? [Podcast] - like always: we lose, organisations win.
The Best Way to Understand Dutch Cycling (w/Meredith Glaser) [Podcast] - some nice insights from someone who shows other people Dutch infrastructure.
Environment
Get paid to recycle: Spain is finally introducing its long-awaited deposit return scheme - this will be interesting to watch.
Negative power prices reach all-time high on the Iberian Peninsula in Q1 - go Spain.
From Diesel to Electric: Ethiopia’s Bold Bet on EVs [YouTube] - if you don’t have technical debt.
Random Spain
Can Pedro Sánchez unite the global left? [Podcast] - it’s weird that Spain is the only one left standing.
Slipmatt’s World Of Rave - some new sets for me, maybe a bit too old-school.
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? - :-)