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

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688 points dheerajvs | 1 comments | 10 Jul 25 16:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source
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Jabrov ◴[10 Jul 25 16:45 UTC] No.44522918[source]▶
Very interesting methodology, but the sample size (16) is way too low. Would love to see this repeated with more participants.
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IshKebab ◴[10 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44523093[source]▶
They paid the developers about $75k in total to do this so I wouldn't hold your breath!
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barbazoo ◴[10 Jul 25 17:09 UTC] No.44523142[source]▶
That's a lot of money for many of us. Do you know those folks were in a HCOL area?
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1. mapt ◴[10 Jul 25 17:33 UTC] No.44523415[source]▶
It isn't a lot of money for industry research. Changes of +-40% in productivity are an enormous advantage/disadvantage for a large tech company moving tens of billions of dollars a year in cashflow through a pipeline that their software engineers built.