[belter]

> Arguably the only place where it has a proven positive impact on productivity is in software development

There are no studies demonstrating this. Having to double check this randomly hallucinating pair programmer AI colleague, is not helping with productivity.

[lukev]

That's why I said "arguably", cause you're about to get argued with.

I won't, though. I tend to agree (under current idioms, I DO think it holds promise for software development when used properly.)

[jpadkins]

Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence. Software developer productivity is very hard to measure, so we may never get a "good" study of this. Might be like IDEs, where at first no one was using them and people would complain that they don't actually help developer productivity. Fast forward 10 years and almost everyone is using them.