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Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower (arstechnica.com)

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Before performing the study, the developers in question expected the AI tools would lead to a 24 percent reduction in the time needed for their assigned tasks. Even after completing those tasks, the developers believed that the AI tools had made them 20 percent faster, on average. In reality, though, the AI-aided tasks ended up being completed 19 percent slower than those completed without AI tools.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

See that’s the problem right there. You’re just suppose to take its output as gospel and move on. Skip this “reviewing” step and massive productivity gains await!

Obviously /s

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