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Australian researchers have handed workplace reformers some compelling ammunition. A formal four-day work week study found that cutting hours didn't cut output — productivity actually climbed. It's a finding that puts pressure on employers who've long treated the five-day week as an immovable fixture of modern work.
On the software side, a developer essay making the rounds asks a pointed question about AI-assisted coding — not what it can do, but what it still can't. The argument is that while AI handles the routine and the repetitive, the genuinely hard parts of software development, the judgment calls and the architecture decisions, remain stubbornly human.
And for the more technically inclined, a deep-dive post from researcher Daniel Lemire explores parsing IPv-six addresses using AVX-five-twelve processor instructions. The result is parsing at extraordinary speed. It's a reminder that low-level performance work, the kind that happens far beneath the apps we use daily, still matters enormously at scale.
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