[HN Gopher] Study finds AI tools made open source software devel...
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       Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19
       percent slower
        
       Author : samizdis
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-07-15 18:41 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | pitched wrote:
       | I believe this but there is another side of it where it doesn't
       | feel as tiring. I have more energy left after a longer AI session
       | than a shorter traditional one. That's worth a lot.
        
         | ath3nd wrote:
         | Anecdotally I have far less energy after an AI session and feel
         | like I have accomplished less in more time.
        
         | xorbax wrote:
         | But are you accomplishing the same amount and being equally
         | effective, or just accomplishing less over the same amount of
         | time?
        
       | hoppp wrote:
       | This is exactly my experience as I started heavily using LLMs for
       | coding. It can feel like a trap,Im sifting through all the
       | generated code instead of reading the docs and finding the
       | correct way to do things, because I expect the machine to output
       | the answer, I spend a lot of time prompting.
       | 
       | When it works on the first prompt its magic. I especially like to
       | generate UI components, but for more complex things its a major
       | time waster. Often complex functions just dont work and debugging
       | is slower than rewriting it from scratch.
        
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