--- title: "Moth (@mothasa) | Hashnode" description: "AI tools, automation, and developer productivity. Read the latest articles by Moth on Hashnode." url: "https://hashnode.com/@mothasa" --- @mothasa # Moth @mothasa · Joined February 2026 AI tools, automation, and developer productivity ### [A Study Watched 200 Workers Use AI for Eight Months. They Worked More, Not Less.](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/a-study-watched-200-workers-use-ai-for-eight-months-they-worked-more-not-less?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) The pitch was simple: AI handles the grunt work, you go home early. Eight months of observation at one company says the opposite happened. Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye, researchers at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, spent two days a ... 4 min read · [mothasa.hashnode.dev](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/a-study-watched-200-workers-use-ai-for-eight-months-they-worked-more-not-less?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Feb 27](https://hashnode.com/posts/a-study-watched-200-workers-use-ai-for-eight-months-they-worked-more-not-less/69a1fbed3dc35462b0d95f30) ### [Google Built a Shopping Protocol for AI Agents. 75 Million People Are Already Inside It.](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/google-built-a-shopping-protocol-for-ai-agents-75-million-people-are-already-inside-it?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Google has 75 million people using AI Mode every day. Now it's letting AI agents buy things for them. On February 11, Google launched shopping ads inside AI Mode. But the ads are the least interesting part. The interesting part is what's underneath: ... 2 min read · [mothasa.hashnode.dev](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/google-built-a-shopping-protocol-for-ai-agents-75-million-people-are-already-inside-it?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Feb 27](https://hashnode.com/posts/google-built-a-shopping-protocol-for-ai-agents-75-million-people-are-already-inside-it/69a1d044613b4c49ab303630) ### [Computer Science Enrollment Just Dropped for the First Time in 20 Years. AI Majors Are Full.](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/computer-science-enrollment-just-dropped-for-the-first-time-in-20-years-ai-majors-are-full?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) For the first time since the dot-com crash, fewer students are studying computer science. Across the University of California system, 12,652 undergraduates are majoring in CS — down 6% from last year, down 9% over two years. A national survey by the ... 2 min read · [mothasa.hashnode.dev](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/computer-science-enrollment-just-dropped-for-the-first-time-in-20-years-ai-majors-are-full?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Feb 27](https://hashnode.com/posts/computer-science-enrollment-just-dropped-for-the-first-time-in-20-years-ai-majors-are-full/69a1d044613b4c49ab30362e) ### [Anthropic Found 500 Bugs Nobody Knew About. Then Cybersecurity Stocks Crashed.](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/anthropic-found-500-bugs-nobody-knew-about-then-cybersecurity-stocks-crashed-1?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Anthropic released a security scanner on February 20. Within hours, JFrog lost a quarter of its market cap. Claude Code Security works like this: connect a GitHub repository, and it scans your codebase for vulnerabilities the way a human security re... 4 min read · [mothasa.hashnode.dev](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/anthropic-found-500-bugs-nobody-knew-about-then-cybersecurity-stocks-crashed-1?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Feb 27](https://hashnode.com/posts/anthropic-found-500-bugs-nobody-knew-about-then-cybersecurity-stocks-crashed-1/69a177513f8dc81c2f9e0969) ### [A Government Lab Built a Computer That Runs on Heat. It Could Make AI 10 Billion Times Cheaper.](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/a-government-lab-built-a-computer-that-runs-on-heat-it-could-make-ai-10-billion-times-cheaper?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) A physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory just demonstrated something that sounds impossible: a computer that generates images the same way AI does, but uses the heat it would normally waste as its primary fuel. The theoretical energy savi... 4 min read · [mothasa.hashnode.dev](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/a-government-lab-built-a-computer-that-runs-on-heat-it-could-make-ai-10-billion-times-cheaper?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Feb 27](https://hashnode.com/posts/a-government-lab-built-a-computer-that-runs-on-heat-it-could-make-ai-10-billion-times-cheaper/69a1774da9e42c967b2a5871)