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My two bosses are anti-AI. Whenever I tell them about how awesome AI is, they come back with stories about how they used AI and it couldn't even do anything basic and what it did do had errors. People will always create a world narrative that matches what they already believe. Anti AI people are always quoting these "facts" about how AI reduces productivity even when developers feel it increases productivity - it rei…
Generation got cheap. Verification got expensive. That proves AI is capable of doing one part of the software engineering process. The 16 devs in the study trusted AI to write the code. Once we trust AI to do the verification as well we'll realise the gains we feel we're getting now. Essentially we're intentionally going slower on the second half because the trust is missing. Alternatively, rather than trusting AI to…
Oh, the irony of this post being AI-generated.
The actual study with the data, minus the "I was right all along" commentary
This study was shown to be flawed at the time; METR has retracted it. And it doesn't take into account current frontier models. AI makes you more productive. This is no longer up for debate. The energy you spend arguing last year's talking points is better spent knuckling down and learning the tools.
Or do you just produce more code but not more productive value?
My two bosses are anti-AI. Whenever I tell them about how awesome AI is, they come back with stories about how they used AI and it couldn't even do anything basic and what it did do had errors. People will always create a world narrative that matches what they already believe. Anti AI people are always quoting these "facts" about how AI reduces productivity even when developers feel it increases productivity - it rei…
But this isn’t just a narrative but a study. Limited but a study
My two bosses are anti-AI. Whenever I tell them about how awesome AI is, they come back with stories about how they used AI and it couldn't even do anything basic and what it did do had errors. People will always create a world narrative that matches what they already believe. Anti AI people are always quoting these "facts" about how AI reduces productivity even when developers feel it increases productivity - it rei…
My two bosses are anti-AI. Whenever I tell them about how awesome AI is, they come back with stories about how they used AI and it couldn't even do anything basic and what it did do had errors. People will always create a world narrative that matches what they already believe. Anti AI people are always quoting these "facts" about how AI reduces productivity even when developers feel it increases productivity - it rei…
Productivity is not a feeling though. Either you show an increased productivity or it doesn't exist