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1. Arch-T+Bt[view] [source] 2026-02-03 08:45:45
>>jinhku+(OP)
"Experienced developers were 19% slower when using AI coding assistants—yet believed they were faster (METR, 2025)"

Anecdotally I see this _all the time_...

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2. jpalom+jL[view] [source] 2026-02-03 11:07:41
>>Arch-T+Bt
The article they are referring to is 404, but based on the URL was published bit more than year ago. That's quite long time in a field that is evolving so rapidly and which even the pioneers are still figuring out.
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3. fallou+y11[view] [source] 2026-02-03 12:56:25
>>jpalom+jL
Its not from a year ago, just 6 months ago: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...
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4. sh4rks+B3a[view] [source] 2026-02-05 20:54:15
>>fallou+y11
> developers can use any tools they choose (primarily Cursor Pro with Claude 3.5/3.7 Sonnet—frontier models at the time of the study

Sonnet 3.5 came out in mid 2024

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