On: I think you might be fooling yourself with AI

[simonw]

I read this headline and thought "METR study"... and sure enough, a few paragraphs in:

> Meanwhile, a study (late 2025) seems to report that although participating developers felt they completed tasks faster using AI, they where around 19% slower.

I think you might be fooling yourself if you build your entire worldview concerning the productivity benefits of AI-assisted programming around that one study from one organization that confirms your priors.

[tempfile → simonw]

What study do you base your worldview on?

[simonw → tempfile]

Four years of personal exploration of the technology.

(I had an argument on Lobste.rs the other day about why only believing aspects of software engineering that have survived peer review doesn't make sense to me: https://lobste.rs/s/5kgenk/reviewing_ai_code_is_not_viable_a... )