References and Sources for Discipline is All You Need - Part 1

 

Studies and Research Papers

• METR (2025). "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity." Becker, Rush, Barnes, Rein. https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ | ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089

• Anthropic (2025). "How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic." Internal workforce study, 132 engineers and researchers surveyed. https://www.anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-work-at-anthropic

• Anthropic (2026). "How AI Assistance Impacts the Formation of Coding Skills." Controlled study, 52 engineers. https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

• Dixon, M.J., Stange, M., et al. (2017). "Dark Flow, Depression, and Multiline Slot Machine Play." Journal of Gambling Studies. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10899-017-9695-1

• Hidalgo, C.A. (2022). "Knowledge Is Non-Fungible." ArXiv. Published in Routledge International Handbook of Complexity Economics (2024). https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02167

• Vaswani, A. et al. (2017). "Attention Is All You Need." Google Brain. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

 

Books

• Schüll, N.D. (2012). Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691160887/addiction-by-design

• Skinner, B.F. (1938). The Behavior of Organisms. Appleton-Century-Crofts.

• Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper & Row.

• Polanyi, M. (1966). The Tacit Dimension. University of Chicago Press.

• Brooks, F. (1986). "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

 

Practitioner Sources

• Howard, Jeremy. Machine Learning Street Talk interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp4RA6MtB1s (Note: verify this link resolves to the correct MLST episode with Jeremy Howard)

• Thomas, Rachel. Co-founder, fast.ai. https://www.fast.ai/

• Kondov, Alex. "Developer Sabbatical" video testimony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZqGwLl9aI

 

People Referenced

• B.F. Skinner — Behavioral psychologist, variable-ratio reinforcement discovery

• Natasha Dow Schüll — MIT anthropologist, machine gambling research

• Jeremy Howard — Deep learning pioneer, Kaggle grandmaster, fast.ai co-founder

• Rachel Thomas — Data scientist, fast.ai co-founder

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Psychologist, flow state research

• César Hidalgo — Complexity researcher, knowledge economics

• Michael Polanyi — Philosopher, tacit knowledge

• Fred Brooks — Software engineering pioneer, IBM System/360 architect