AI Coding Tools Made Developers 19% Slower (metr Study)
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A study by METR found that AI coding tools made developers 19% slower, sparking discussion on the impact of AI on productivity; the single comment on the post questions the study's methodology.
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We're implementing queues and pipelines and task engines and entire rest apis for new features in a single day.
Our company is pretty young blood startup, which does feed into this of course - however if this METR study was done at a place like "United HealthCare" those devs are going to resist because it's against their want to just sleep half the day and play Battlefield when they get home. If they actually got more productive, even for a second, their boss will expect it. No, these large companies only slow down - it's why they acquire new blood all the time.