[tempfile]

>> although participating developers felt they completed tasks faster using AI, they where around 19% slower

> Maybe that was true in 2025, but it's clearly not true any more - I feel so productive now!

Even if you are right, this is a completely baseless argument. The people in the study felt the exact same way! And "it's 6 months old, so I won't listen to it" is an insanely high standard. You're eliminating all the evidence!

[ChicagoDave]

That study…I would have agreed with the group at that time. Up until December, I was vocally skeptical that GenAI could be used for anything more complex than a “departmental” app.

Opus and similar models completely invalidated that skepticism, especially when context windows increased.

In the last two weeks I designed and deployed a new programming language that compiles in a browser. Impossible in the before times.

[timmmmmmay]

what evidence? more than half of social science studies fail to replicate, why would I believe that this one is in the good half?

[tempfile]

Sure, why believe anything?