Claude Code made me love meetings again

kept by eddie jan 28

AI coding tools like Claude Code reduce the need for deep flow states, freeing mental capacity to enjoy spontaneous meetings and interruptions.

The AI Vampire. This was an unusually hard post to… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026
Steve Yegge argues that AI tools boosting productivity to 10x are creating an 'AI vampire' effect that drains employee energy and leads to burnout, as companies capture most of the value while workers overwork.
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Doing nothing at work
Working below full capacity—keeping slack in one's schedule—is essential for handling high-value tasks, preventing burnout, and responding to crises, but requires careful communication with managers.
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I wrote a 70x faster SQL parser while barely looking at the code - PostHog
The author used AI agents to rewrite PostHog's SQL parser in Rust, achieving a 70x speedup (454x in production) via property-based testing and oracle-based development.
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Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization
An experiment using Claude Code to autonomously optimize a file compression algorithm over 10 iterations, achieving competitive results against standard tools by iterating on an LZSS-based approach.
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Coding sessions in Linear – Changelog
Linear Agent can now write and review code using Claude Code and Codex, enabling end-to-end issue-to-ship workflows from within Linear.
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