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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: 0.208s | 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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IshKebab ◴[10 Jul 25 17:11 UTC] No.44523169[source]▶
No idea. They don't say who they were; just random popular GitHub projects.

To be clear it wasn't $75k each.

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1. narush ◴[10 Jul 25 19:21 UTC] No.44524548[source]▶
You can see a list of repositories with participating developers in the appendix! Section G.7.

Paper is here: https://metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experienced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf