Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%. After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%
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I don’t think that’s true. In fact most people say the opposite - AI doesn’t help junior devs because they can’t recognise when it’s bullshitting. I don’t really believe that either - that’s just ego talking. I expect it helps people of all experience levels fairly equally, but only with tasks that are relatively simple. It’s not like senior engineers never do those though.