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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The experienced developers in the study believed they were 20% faster. There's a chance you also measured your efficiency more subjectively than you think you did.

I suspect that unless you were considerably more rigorous in testing your efficiency than they were, you might just be in a time flies when you're having fun kind of situation.