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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by Terr_ on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @10:44PM (#45677635)
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.

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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by Our_Benefactors on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:42AM (#45678515)
Have you used it? It should be, and does.
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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by bandrami on Thursday October 23, 2025 @02:56AM (#45678978)
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...

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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by Our_Benefactors on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:57AM (#45681872)
Did you read the article?

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

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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by bandrami on Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:35PM (#45686744)
Correct, it only shows that AI slows down experienced developers, which is who the thread is about.
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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @12:15PM (#45683624)
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.
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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by bandrami on Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:35PM (#45686740)
OK, should be easy to find a better study then, right?
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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:07PM (#45687952)
Not my job. Ask your friendly neighborhood LLM, maybe.
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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by bandrami on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:59PM (#45688520)
If I wanted advice from someone who was confidently wrong I would talk to a project manager
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Re:Is AI a Bubble? I Didn't Think So Until I Heard of SDD by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:42PM (#45689376)
Zing
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