Last activity about 1 month agoPosted Oct 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM EDT
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity
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A research paper examines the potential impact of early-2025 AI on experienced developer productivity, sparking discussion on the methodology and implications of such studies.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772
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When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.
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