productivity
4 lessons tagged productivity: free, quiz-checked micro-lessons.
GitHub Copilot: Niche Power Features You Probably Aren't Using
You already let Copilot autocomplete your code. This lesson dives into the underused power features: chat participants, slash commands, Copilot Edits, agent mode, custom instructions, prompt files, the model picker, MCP servers, and Copilot Spaces.
Coding Agents: Productivity Studies, Benchmarks, and the METR Slowdown
Hard evidence on AI coding assistants: the Microsoft Research RCTs, METR's surprising 2025 slowdown finding, SWE-bench Verified, and why benchmark scores keep outrunning real-world value.
Customer Service AI Agents: What the Data Actually Shows
An evidence-led look at AI agents in customer support: the Brynjolfsson NBER RCT, Klarna's 2024 victory lap and 2025 walk-back, and what generalises beyond a single firm.
AI-aided software development: working with Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code
What modern AI dev tools actually do, where they sit on a spectrum from inline completion to autonomous agents, and the workflow habits that separate developers who 2x their output from developers who ship subtly broken code.