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>>dheera+(OP)
Wow these are extremely interesting results, specially this part:

> 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%.

I wonder what could explain such large difference between estimation/experience vs reality, any ideas?

Maybe our brains are measuring mental effort and distorting our experience of time?

>>pera+1o
I think just about every developer hack turns out this way: static vs dynamic types; keyboard shortcuts vs mice; etc. But I think it’s also possible to over-interpret these findings: using the tools that make your work enjoyable has important second-order effects even if they aren’t the productivity silver bullet everyone claims they are.

>>fiddle+wu1
This same conclusion has been actually observed practically verbatim about the keyboard vs. mouse https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html from the post:

- Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.

- The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

>>robenk+oWa
Yeah, that was one of the pieces of research I was thinking about. Another is this review of the evidence, such as it is, for static types: https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/

So far, Fred Brook’s “No Silver Bullet” remains undefeated.