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AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds
The study tracked around 800 developers, comparing their output with and without GitHub's Copilot coding assistant over three-month periods. Surprisingly, when measuring key metrics like pull request...
At custom software firm Gehtsoft USA, CEO Ivan Gekht told CIO that they've found the AI-generated code challenging to understand and debug, making it more efficient to simply rewrite from scratch sometimes. Gekht added that software development is "90% brain function – understanding the requirements, designing the system, and considering limitations and restrictions," while converting all this into code is the simpler part of the job. However, at cloud provider Innovative Solutions, CTO Travis Rehl reported stellar results, with developer productivity increasing up to three times thanks to tools like Claude Dev and Copilot.
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