AI research lab that published findings showing AI tools slowed open-source developers despite their perception of increased productivity.
“Researchers measured how much time open source developers took to do tasks by hand versus with AI. While developers in that study reported that AI was making them more productive, they were shocked to learn it actually slowed them down.”
Source→“In 2022, GPT 3.5 could do tasks that might take a person about ~30 seconds. In 2023, this rose to 4 minutes with GPT-4. In 2024, this rose to 40 minutes (o1). In 2025, it reached ~6 hours (GPT 5.2 (High)). In 2026, it has already risen to ~12 hours (Opus 4.6).”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.