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From the blog post referenced:

We do not provide evidence that:

AI systems do not currently speed up many or most software developers

Seems the article should be titled “16 AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower” - though I guess making us think it was intended to be a statistically relevant finding was the point.

That all said, this was genuinely interesting and is in-line with my understanding of the human psychology that’s at play. It would be nice to see this at a wider scale, broken down across different methodologies / toolsets and models.

@dgerard@awful.systems who is your illustrator? These are consistently great.

And generate shit code

For each time saved, you're having that one kink that will slow you down by a fuck ton, something that AI just can't get right, something that takes ai 5 hours to fix but would've taken you 10-20 to write from scratch