Paul Webb

Software Engineering, Finance, and Sports nerd, not necessarily in that order.

[Paul Webb @Webbsurfer23]

@David_J_Bier Real answer: https://t.co/Q0czZ92yov

Specifically the Southern California Edison case is quite famous.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I wanted to share a bunch of my favorite hidden and under-utilized features in Claude Code. I'll focus on the ones I use the most.

Here goes.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: Berkeley researchers spent 8 months inside a tech company watching how employees actually use AI.

The promise was simple: AI will save you time. Do less. Work smarter.

The opposite happened.

Workers didn't use AI to finish early and go home. They used it to take on more. More tasks. More projects. More hours. Nobody asked them to. They did it to themselves.

The researchers sat inside the company two days a week for 8 months. They watched 200 employees in real time. They tracked work channels. They conducted 40+ interviews across engineering, product, design, and operations.

Here's what they found. AI made everything feel faster, so people filled every gap. They sent prompts during lunch. Before meetings. Late at night. The natural stopping points in the workday disappeared. People ran multiple AI agents in the background while writing code, drafting documents, and sitting in meetings simultaneously.

It felt like momentum. It felt productive. But when they stepped back, they described feeling stretched, busier, and completely unable to disconnect.

83% said AI increased their workload. Not decreased. Increased.

62% of associates and 61% of entry-level workers reported burnout. Only 38% of executives felt the same strain. The people doing the actual work absorbed the damage while leadership celebrated the productivity numbers.

Then came the trap nobody saw coming. When one person uses AI to take on extra work, everyone else feels like they're falling behind. So the whole team speeds up. Nobody formally raises expectations. But the new pace quietly becomes the default. What AI made possible became what was expected.

The researchers gave it a name: workload creep. It looks like productivity at first. Then it becomes the new baseline. Then it becomes burnout.

AI was supposed to give you your time back. Instead it's eating more of it. And the worst part? You're doing it to yourself. Voluntarily.

[Aasma Shaukat MD MPH @AasmaShaukatMD]

One of my former research assistants was killed by ICE in Minneapolis today😢

Alex was the kindest, sweetest human and a ICU nurse with a bright future ahead of him
May his soul rest in peace and this senseless carnage stop💔

[No Escalators @NoEscalators]

Indiana was the worst team in college football for 150 years and then they let teams start paying players and they immediately became No. 1 and the only conclusion to draw is they were the only ones who didn’t realize you could pay players under the table for the first 150 years

[Paul Webb @Webbsurfer23]

Man, this guy has a big smile and is full of joy and enthusiasm. He’s also a fucking moron. Sadly, this deserves a watch.

[Adam Wren @adamwren]

The sitting Lt. Gov of Indiana, who calls himself a Christian nationalist, says, on camera, that the Three-Fifths Compromise was a “great move.” Watch it here:

[Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein]

Do not look away.

[Paul Webb @Webbsurfer23]

@TeamTurboTax there’s a bug in TurboTax showing I have additional taxes paid in 2024 that never happened. Support couldn’t find problem, and resolution desk hung up on me. Can someone check the backend system on my return?

[Paul Webb @Webbsurfer23]

@BillSimmons @BillSimmons while all true and I’m excited for new ownership… he saved the team from moving, never once threatened to move for 30 years, and never asked for a new arena.

That’s something no one from BOS/LA will ever understand.

[Paul Webb @Webbsurfer23]

Man, if only there was some way to possibly have seen this coming. Like if Jimmy had ever done something line this before🙄

[Bobby Marks @BobbyMarks42]

We continue to learn that Miami will do this suspension dance all season with Jimmy Butler.

If Butler continues to give the Heat a reason (like walking out of shootaround), he will get suspended.

And just like Ben Simmons with Philadelphia, Butler will likely get a good chunk of the money back after it goes to arbitration (or gets settled).

But this is not all about the money but more about removing a distraction from their locker room.

[Paul Webb @Webbsurfer23]

@Kasparov63 @Kasparov63 completely agree with this take, but seems a bit hypocritical when saying the Gaza civilian toll is acceptable.

[Paul Webb @Webbsurfer23]

@alec_lewis Read the ESPN insider piece posted the other day. It’s pretty clear he can’t move.

[Steve Chenevey FOX5 @stevechenevey]

Arlington County asked residents to name the county snow plows this winter and they did not disappoint ❄️

[sophie @netcapgirl]

if you're not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship.

true happiness comes from building dashboards that give executives deeper insight into critical business functions

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Kevin McCarthy on Matt Gaetz: “I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker. It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old.”

[Ryan Els @RyanEls4]

Delete legacy code ✊🏻😫

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Appointing 2 people to do 1 job is good start to “department of government efficiency”

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

What a devastating indictment of our country.