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by rsynnott 178 days ago
It is, at this point, rather suspect that there are mountains of anecdata, but pretty much no high quality quantitive data (and what there is is mixed at best). Fun fact; worldwide, over 200 million people use homeopathy on a regular basis. They think it works. It doesn't work.
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I don't suppose anything will change your mind, but here you go.

https://youtu.be/1OzxYK2-qsI a 6-12% increase in pull requests per developer per month.

"But those diffs are AI slop and rework" you will object. Oh well, I tried.

> Fun fact; worldwide, over 200 million people use homeopathy on a regular basis. They think it works. It doesn't work.

Homeopathy works for sure. Placebo works. There are many studies confirming that.