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1. lmeyer+QA[view] [source] 2025-07-10 20:16:42
>>dheera+(OP)
As someone has been doing hardcore genai for 2+ years, my experience has been, and what we advise internally:

* 3 weeks to transition from ai pairing to AI Delegation to ai multitasking. So work gains are mostly week 3+. That's 120+ hours in, as someone pretty senior here.

* Speedup is the wrong metric. Think throughput, not latency. Some finite amount of work might take longer, but the volume of work should go up because AI can do more on a task and diff tasks/projects in parallel.

Both perspectives seem consistent with the paper description...

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2. phyzom+Vk1[view] [source] 2025-07-11 02:32:39
>>lmeyer+QA
Have you actually measured this?

Because one of the big takeaways from this study is that people are bad at predicting and observing their own time spent.

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