Just embarrassing to believe a study like this right now.
plot twist: the vast majority of "studies" are like this, complete garbage, but called "science" because they put a table with p-values in
AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
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Re: AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
#12Calling bullshit on this. The size of projects I've done in the past year compared to before is mind boggling. There is NO way I could have reached this level of productivity without a properly trained and properly prompted LLM.
I notice the study is "in the past" when models weren't as good and also it appears to focus on office workers writing text.
Ya, using AI to write your emails isn't that huge of a time savings. But coding is different matter.
Re: AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
#13This article looks AI-written but I doubt it increased anyone’s paycheck.
I wouldn’t expect productivity to increase paychecks all that quickly except in special cases like that memory factory in South Korea. Higher productivity sometimes eventually results in more revenue and some companies competing for better workers by offering higher salaries (as has happened for software engineers), but this takes time and depends on companies believing that hiring better workers benefits them.
We aren’t really seeing that yet. We are seeing layoffs and companies being cautious about hiring. If it happens at all, it will take time.
Re: AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
#14Citing a paper from 2023 and calling it frontier, nah
Re: AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
#15A year ago AI wrote roughly 0% of my code and now it writes roughly 100%. Which is to say any AI study from a year ago is fairly out of date with the speed of advancement.
The study is two months old (March 13, 2026). Edit: Also, it's about writing not coding and it's point isn't that time isn't saved but even with time saved at the task, you don't get a broad decrease in total worked time for many/most workers.
Right but it looks back well before that.
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#17A year ago AI wrote roughly 0% of my code and now it writes roughly 100%. Which is to say any AI study from a year ago is fairly out of date with the speed of advancement.
But that itself doesn't tell us yet how much time it saved you at the end of the day.
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#18Calling bullshit on this. The size of projects I've done in the past year compared to before is mind boggling. There is NO way I could have reached this level of productivity without a properly trained and properly prompted LLM.
Can you say what exactly you've accomplished with this productivity? Can you provide revenue numbers and how profit increased or does your definition of productivity not include this?
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#19Calling bullshit on this. The size of projects I've done in the past year compared to before is mind boggling. There is NO way I could have reached this level of productivity without a properly trained and properly prompted LLM.
Like what
Re: AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
#20This article is probably not accurate. AI allows me to create hugely complex apps. Apps that I mostly don't understand the underlying code but can evaluate that it works fairly quick and effectively.
That said, in the corporate world, it's not that easy. There are tons of hoops to jump through and context switching all day long. So while my code is 100% AI generated these days, and I can make extremely complicated apps quickly at home, at work however, I'm burned out and completely checked out for the most part, entirely due to AI.
We don't have the same capabilities to burn tokens in the corporate world like we do at home. We don't have the creative freedoms we have at home. AI productivity is just not easily measured.