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256: The Productivity Trap: How Optimizing Everything Broke Us

Working Code by Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham

Apr 23, 202647:29Technology

It's 11:30 PM and you're still prompting. The code is better than anything you'd have shipped a year ago. The output is prolific, the roadmap is moving, the tooling is miraculous. So why are you still here at 11:30 PM? T...

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256: The Productivity Trap: How Optimizing Everything Broke Us is an episode from Working Code by Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham. It's 11:30 PM and you're still prompting. The code is better than anything you'd have...

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Published Apr 23, 2026, 47:29 long, audio available.

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