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Eric Dodds
Personal blog · ericdodds.com/blogaiprogramming
Eric Dodds's personal blog at ericdodds.com covers ai and programming. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eric Dodds's research post on time, work and productivity. It covers the gap between perceived and actual productivity in crunch time and includes a graph of the data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to my corner of the internet.
Most-linked posts?
- /research-and-the-realities-of-time-worked/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-18
What Hacker News says?
https://ericdodds.com/research-and-the-realities-of-time-wor... https://lostgarden.home.blog/2008/09/28/rules-of-productivit... Might be good to start here.
Comment linking /research-and-the-realities-of-time-worked/
on “Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit”Submitted Building an AI blog post summary feature with Vercel's AI Gateway as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCovered at least in part in http://ericdodds.com/research-and-the-realities-of-time-work... - including perception vs reality of productivity in crunch time. He has a graph on that: http://ericdodds.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/graphing-per... It's possible that some special individuals can work longer hours than average without productivity loss. However, without hard data to prove you're one of those individuals…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/graphing-percieved-productivity-daniel-cook-working-overtime-eric-dodds-productivity-hacking-blog-series.jpg
on “Work Hard, Live Well”Submitted AI will create a near-term socioeconomic gap among knowledge workers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionActually, that isn't true. The marginal output of working more than about 40 hours per week turns negative after about 4 weeks of doing so. There's plenty of research on this. https://ericdodds.com/research-and-the-realities-of-time-wor...
Comment linking /research-and-the-realities-of-time-worked/
on “List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week”Submitted Using Cursor to migrate my 13-year old WordPress site to Next.js as a story · 3 points
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