AI at Work
How AI tools change the working day for desk workers: productivity claims versus reality, workload, fatigue, focus and the quality of the work that comes out.
Is AI taking entry-level jobs? What the payroll data actually show
There are two loud stories about AI and jobs. In one, a wave of automation is about to wipe out white-collar work. In the other, nothing…
Does using AI at work make colleagues think less of you?
Most advice about AI at work assumes the only question is whether the tool helps you. There is a second question that gets less attention: what…
AI meeting assistants: what always-on transcription does to how meetings work
AI meeting assistants now join calls, transcribe everything and email a summary before anyone has left the room. Two things are well evidenced: automatic speech recognition…
Does Writing With AI Flatten Your Voice? The Homogenisation Evidence
An experiment where the individual result and the collective result point in opposite directions, and the authors name the structure that produces it.
What Is Workslop? The AI Output That Moves the Work to Whoever Receives It
You open the document. It is well formatted, the headings are confident, the summary reads smoothly, and somewhere around the second paragraph you realise it does…
Vibe coding: what the data say about shipping code you didn’t read
Every developer now has an opinion about vibe coding, and most of those opinions are calibrated against how the workflow feels. That is a problem, because…
Is “decision fatigue” real, and does an AI assistant actually fix it?
“Decision fatigue” as most people use the phrase means a specific theory: willpower is a tank, every choice drains it, and by late afternoon you make…
Does AI pair-programming make you a worse debugger?
The short answer is: it can, and the mechanism is not mysterious. In the one randomised trial that has directly measured it, developers who learned a…
Does Letting Siri AI Draft Your Writing Cost You Anything?
Siri AI can now draft an email or a message for you from scratch, and the honest cost of letting it is not that you forget…
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