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The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower


For two years I argued the feeling of AI speed had come apart from the fact of it, from watching my own teams. This summer it stopped being an anecdote. A controlled trial measured experienced developers feeling about 20% faster while running about 19% slower. The instrument we steer by reads backward.

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