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You don't need AI to tell you the ratio @ALeighMP
In a randomised trial, software developers using AI took 19% longer to complete tasks. Yet they believed AI had made them 20% faster.
At the ‘Evidence in Action’ event, I argued for a government that tests what works, and saves money by learning from the results. ministers.treasury.gov.au/mi… #randomistas
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The 19%/20% figures are from a July 2025 METR study of experienced open-source developers using early-2025 AI tools, which the authors describe as an outdated snapshot; a 2026 follow-up found some evidence for speedup with newer tools.
metr.org/blog/2025-07-1…
metr.org/blog/2026-02-2…
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
"The ABC will lobby the Albanese government for an increase to its current $1.229bn annual funding ... the managing director ... claiming there is a 'compelling argument' for the media organisation to receive more generous financial backing." theaustralian.com.au/busines…
Buried in the article: "In September 2022, Nouri received an interim order permitting her to relocate to Aurora." But yes, it's dad's fault that she has to "drive 15 hours every three weekends every month".
“The only thing I want from the court is to let me be a mother to my child,” she said.
Five years in family court. Still no final order. Still no stability.
Iris, who lives in Canada, drives 15 hours so her nine-year-old can see her dad, which affects her work. She can’t live with an unrelated man. Her postpartum depression is used against her. A costs order is being weaponised to try and shut her out.
She never asked to cut contact. She simply asked to be allowed to raise her daughter and earn a living.
Mothers get the exhaustion. Fathers get the red carpet, and open-ended process. The system calls it best interests.
📕The System Is The Weapon
amzn.eu/d/07VygeC4
📰🔗orilliamatters.com/court/so-…
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.@JEChalmers belatedly discovering what happens to ministers who throw their department to the wolves.
.@cheryl_kernot - please tell me you retweeted this hateful drivel by mistake.
Thank goodness it’s a nighttime grand final. Can’t believe we used to be so entertained by afternoon grand final football 🤔
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A mansion in Woollahra and three investment properties. @DavidShoebridge
Sound familiar, Australia?
No, Andy Burnham, the drivers of high energy bills are not “outside your control”.
Britain has the highest energy bills in the world as the result of a deliberate ideological choice by you and your net-zero-mad government.
You can’t reindustrialise with extortionate energy.
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How's that good news going, Craig?
The @australian is just about the only media outlet interpreting today’s inflation numbers as signifying no cut in interest rates. Everyone else thinks they’re good news.
Could it be that the editors of the @australian are hoping for no rate cut?
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"Australians are paying a hefty price for a war in the Middle East that is turbocharging the inflation challenge"
Another speech this morning from the Treasurer which fails to take responsibility for the fact productivity has gone backwards in every quarter on his watch. That’s what happens when there’s no plan to turn the economy around. More finger-pointing & spin won’t cut it. #auspol
