Tech is supposed to make our lives easier (News)

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Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be ‘correct’ & the Thoughtbot team writes up six cases when not to refactor.

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1. What up, friendly nerds? (00:00:00)

https://changelog.fm/feud?utm_source=changelog-news

2. Tech is supposed to make our lives easier (00:00:50)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=changelog-news&v=DifysK46DO4

3. How to thrive in a ChatGPT world (00:02:58)

https://thebullshitmachines.com/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. Chat is a bad UI pattern for dev tools (00:03:38)

https://danieldelaney.net/chat/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:04:57)

https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/2025-ai-predictions?utm_source=changelog-news

6. Are better models better? (00:05:49)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/1/the-problem-with-better-models?utm_source=changelog-news

7. Reasons not to refactor (00:06:38)

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/reasons-not-to-refactor?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:07:33)