productivity
2 published articles
AI6 min read
Productivity metrics
The one metric AI coding agents can't fake: human hours
Cognition Labs built the first automated system to estimate how many human engineering hours each Devin session saves. The model reaches R² 0.70 but deliberately underestimates. The deeper challenge: converting session traces into defensible ROI numbers remains unsolved.
2026-07-15
News2 min read
Editorial craft
The inner critic isn't your enemy. It's a timer you forgot to set.
Self-doubt doesn't vanish. But you can manage it by putting the inner editor on a timer, lowering the stakes, and learning to write through the noise. That's the real craft.
2026-07-07