Not boding well for jobs or paying bills

US inflation picks up again in June, rising at 2.7% annual rate

A clickbait going around: Scientists Find Alarming Link Between AI Use and Psychopathy

Be sure to read the study, which analyzed self-reported data from 504 Chinese university art students using structural equation modeling with the equally click-bait title of Dark personality traits are associated with academic misconduct, frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use habits: the case of Sichuan art universities. Essentially, they “discovered” that students with “dark traits” are more likely to utilize AI tools to assist with their homework, achieve good results, and continue using them. Sounds like maybe the problem is the ones not using AI tools.

This is a great video to cut through the hype on AI from both sides.

Apple’s ‘AI Can’t Reason’ Claim Seen By 13M+, What You Need to Know

More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency are being reinstated.

Hundreds of laid-off CDC employees are being reinstated

Think movies and shows entirely generated from AI are still a long way off? Check this video made with Veo 3 that starts at just $67/month

Veo3 test // non-existent car show

Another step toward generating “live action” movies and shows.

AMC Networks Is Teaming up with AI Company Runway

The administration is terminating leases for 11 OSHA offices, including the one in Houston. Trump has cut 10 percent of its workforce, and more layoffs could be coming. See Will Texas Workers Ever Get a Break from the Summer Heat?

Harper Reed on coding with AI

Harper Reed on coding with AI video

Some great tips, but it’s clear he’s rewriting the entire app to add a feature or fix a bug, which I don’t believe most companies will adopt, as they prefer the code to change as little as possible to avoid introducing new bugs. Since most of the work that paid programmers do involves fixing bugs, upgrading versions (like Java 8 to Java 17), and adding features, I foresee AI being an excellent tool for researching new functions instead of googling and clicking on numerous links to find a working example among all the unanswered and incorrectly answered question posts. I see the next step as utilizing tools to read your codebase and requirement documents to build a model that can “understand” your application. This model will collaborate with coding models to generate updates for your codebase and tests for those changes. Perhaps in a decade, management will feel comfortable removing the last human coder, at a senior or lead level, from the loop.

Seeing so many all-or-nothing posts about how AI will replace programmers, I made a post as a long-time programmer who uses these tools and knows their limitations compared to what professional programmers actually do on a daily basis.

Clearing up the AI programming myth.

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months.

Could be boon for contract programming jobs though timeline seems unrealistic.

Details: DOGE planned to close four Mass. IRS offices. Now it’s targeting two.