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Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

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688 points dheerajvs | 2 comments | 10 Jul 25 16:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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fritzo ◴[10 Jul 25 17:05 UTC] No.44523102[source]▶
As an open source maintainer on the brink of tech debt bankruptcy, I feel like AI is a savior, helping me keep up with rapid changes to dependencies, build systems, release methodology, and idioms.
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aerhardt ◴[10 Jul 25 17:13 UTC] No.44523184[source]▶
But what about producing actual code?
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1. fritzo ◴[10 Jul 25 17:27 UTC] No.44523328[source]▶
Producing code is overrated. There's lots of old code whose lifetime we can extend.
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2. fhd2 ◴[10 Jul 25 19:11 UTC] No.44524442[source]▶
Very, very much this.