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688 points dheerajvs | 1 comments | 10 Jul 25 16:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.508s | source

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pera ◴[10 Jul 25 18:54 UTC] No.44524261[source]▶

Wow these are extremely interesting results, specially this part:

> This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

I wonder what could explain such large difference between estimation/experience vs reality, any ideas?

Maybe our brains are measuring mental effort and distorting our experience of time?

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1. chamomeal ◴[10 Jul 25 20:32 UTC] No.44525239[source]▶

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It’s funny cause I sometimes have the opposite experience. I tried to use Claude code today to make a demo app to show off a small library I’m working on. I needed it to set up some very boilerplatey example app stuff.

It was fun to watch, it’s super polished and sci-fi-esque. But after 15 minutes I felt braindead and was bored out of my mind lol

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