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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower
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Ai-only vibe coders. As a development manager I can tell you that AI-augmented actual developers who know how to write software and what good and bad code looks like are unquestionably faster. GitHub Copilot makes creating a suite of unit tests and documentation for a class take very little time.
Second paragraph, first sentence:
The writing of the rest of the article also makes it clear the study involved experienced devs.
Your contradiction of an article you clearly didn't read makes suspect the validity of any other claims you might make.
I'm glad your anecdotal experience managing developers completely debunks this scientific experiment. I was starting to worry all this AI might not be a good idea!
The article stated it was actually experienced open source developers working on large projects they were familiar with and fixing actual bugs.
Are you able to code yourself?
What is the experience level of your team?
Do you understand the difference between anecdotal data and this study?
It seems to be best for plug-in, module type work with very clearly defined input and output and limited size.