Re:Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Reduce Productivity
by franciscop on Thursday July 10, 2025 @11:56PM
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It's a very well controlled study about... what the study claims to do. Yes, they didn't study a different thing, for _many_ reasons. Yes, we shouldn't haphazardly extrapolate to other parts of Engineering. But it looks like it's a good study nonetheless.
There are some very good findings though, like how the devs thought they were sped up but they were actually slowed down.
Re:Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Reduce Productivity
by kylecazar on Sunday July 13, 2025 @10:49AM
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Agreed. My comment was anticipating the extrapolation part :)
Re:Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Reduce Productivity
by cheeze on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:09PM
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As a backend dev who owns a few internal crappy frontends, LLMs have been the best thing ever. Code quality isn't the top priority, I just need to plumb some data to an internal page at BigCorp.
These were maintainers of large open source projects. It's all relative. It's clearly providing massive gains for some and not as much for others. It should follow that it's benefit to you depends on who you are and what you are working on.
It isn't black and white.