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Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by jay@beehaw.org to c/programming@programming.dev

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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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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

That's my issue with AI. I go to AI after my skills, the documentation and google failed me. Then I go to ChatGPT to get lied to, because ChatGPT doesn't know either.

And almost without fail, AI doesn't help me there.

The only thing where AI helps is AI autocomplete in die IDE, if I am doing something very simple and monotonous, then it helps me to sometimes reduce my typing speed a little bit compared to regular autocomplete.

But typing time is like 0.5% of the time I spend developing stuff.