[Terr_]

That's true insofar as there is friction to adoption.

But whether $THING should be adopted and whether it does increase long-term productivity is nowhere near as clear-cut.

[Our_Benefactors]

Have you used it? It should be, and does.

[bandrami]

Did you read the article? It cites the METR study[1] which showed that while people using AI tools to program report feeling like they are producing more, they are in fact producing about 20% less than without the tools.

Ironically you could get the same effect and save compute fees by simply having programmers stay home one day a week.

[1] https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

[CamperBob2]

That study is straight out of the school that measures productivity in kLOC. Completely worthless except as fuel for Internet arguments and poorly-informed policymaking.

[bandrami]

OK, should be easy to find a better study then, right?

[CamperBob2]

Not my job. Ask your friendly neighborhood LLM, maybe.

[bandrami]

If I wanted advice from someone who was confidently wrong I would talk to a project manager

[Our_Benefactors]

Did you read the article?

> We do not provide evidence that: AI systems do not currently speed up many or most software developers

[bandrami]

Correct, it only shows that AI slows down experienced developers, which is who the thread is about.