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Wait a minute — developers who use genAI tools are slower?
It’s becoming clear that AI chatbots and other genAI tools aren't nearly as helpful as we’ve been led to believe.
Using such genAI tools as Cursor Pro and Claude 3.5/3.7 Sonnet, the programmers presumed that with AI’s help, they’d reduce their task time by 24%. Tasks expected to take roughly six hours or less showed the most pronounced slowdown, with AI-assisted work slowing completion times significantly. As Domenic Denicola, a Google Chrome developer and the jsdom maintainer who was in the study, wrote, he was surprised at just “ how bad the models are at implementing web specifications.”
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