Justin Searls dives deep into whether AI tools like ChatGPT actually threaten knowledge worker jobs and provides helpful ideas around what to do about it.

Having spent months programming with GitHub Copilot, weeks talking to ChatGPT, and days searching via Bing Chat as an alternative to Google, the best description I’ve heard of AI’s capabilities is “fluent bullshit.” And after months of seeing friends “cheat” at their day jobs by having ChatGPT do their homework for them, I’ve come to a pretty grim, if obvious, realization:

The more excited someone is by the prospect of AI making their job easier, the more they should be worried.

Recent guest Justin Searls announces his new thing:

Standard Ruby (a Ruby style guide with linter & automatic code fixer) now ships with its own built-in language server, which enables it to offer lightning-fast linting and formatting for supported editors. This new extension leverages that language server to deliver a much faster UX than most other Ruby extensions available for VS Code.

I don’t know how many of our readers live at the intersection of VS Code and Ruby… but if you do, this should be great news for you. 😉

Justin Searls shares some advice on working from home that he’s acquired over 9 years of running a remote company. I like how he breaks it up into advice for humans (everyone), employees, and managers.

I mentioned this post in the resources segment of today’s JS Party recording all about WFH. That conversation hits feeds a week from tomorrow.