Competing Empirical Studies on AI's Actual Impact on Work
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Version 3 2026-08-01 08:06 UTC · 47 items
No new substantive content this pass. All seven new items are amplification pieces — Instagram reposts, secondary blog summaries, a pre-existing CNBC HR survey from November 2025, and a Hacker News policy discussion thr…
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Version 2 2026-07-30 02:13 UTC · 40 items
The main substantive addition this pass is D. Richard Hipp's SQL analogy (item 42022, shared by Simon Willison), which adds a historical-precedent voice and a new open question about whether AI's effects are structurall…
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Version 1 2026-07-29 02:07 UTC · 29 items
Two large-scale empirical studies — Google's ATLAS (15 million Gemini interactions) [^41881] and OpenAI's 'Work at the Frontier' report (800,000+ ChatGPT messages) [^41795] — published within days of each other in late …