Just enough automation (News)

What up, nerds? Sheboy. I'm Jared, and this is change log news for the week of Monday, 09/15/2025. If you think Roombas are cool, wait till you get a load of Dusty Robotics Roomba for the construction industry. Instead of vacuuming the floor, it drives around printing the construction floor plan on the bare slab. Such a simple concept that will remove so much inefficiency in the construction process. I love it. Okay. Let's get into this week's news. Just enough automation. I used to try to automate pretty much everything. Eventually, I learned there are some things that just aren't worth it. But where exactly is that line? Zach Gates tried to quantify it. After a few iterations, he came up with this equation. Long term value equals the value of the task times the number of iterations for the task minus the effort of automating the task minus maintenance costs minus documentation costs minus mistake costs plus or minus long term effects. Sometimes the biggest challenge is predicting the actual effort of automating a task. We devs tend to underestimate that, forcing ourselves to learn the hard way. But if you can get that number right, maybe this equation will help you decide whether or not to automate your next repetitive task. Albania welcomes its first AI overlord. Look out, corrupt Albanian politicians. There's a new AI generated minister in town, and her name is Diala. Quote, Albania's prime minister on Friday tapped an artificial intelligence generated minister to tackle corruption and promote transparency and innovation in his new cabinet, end quote. Diallo will be a member of the cabinet according to prime minister, Adirama. But needless to say, not everybody is on board with the idea. But maybe that doesn't matter. Quote, lawmakers will vote on the new cabinet, but it was unclear whether Rama will ask for a vote on Diala's virtual post. Legal experts say more work may be needed to establish Diala's official status, end quote. I'm all for tackling corruption and promoting transparency, but is today's state of the art AI even close to ready for that? So far, thankfully, it seems Diala's work has been more akin to a digital librarian. Quote, Diela, depicted as a figure in a traditional Albanian folk costume, was created earlier this year in cooperation with Microsoft as a virtual assistant on the e Albania public service platform, where she has helped users navigate the site and get access to about 1,000,000 digital inquiries and documents. Really simple licensing for the AI first Internet. RSS co creator, Eckert Walther, along with some big names on the web, like Tim O'Reilly, schema.org's, Arvi Guha, Simon Wistow from Fastly, to name a few, have designed a new open standard for licensing content in a machine readable form. Really simple licensing, or RSL, is similar to Cloudflare's pay per crawl idea, but with more forms of compensation. Also, the ability to license non public content like books, videos, and datasets, …