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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: 0.988s | source
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swayvil ◴[10 Jul 25 17:46 UTC] No.44523562[source]▶
AI by design can only repeat and recombine past material. Therefore actual invention is out.
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1. keeda ◴[10 Jul 25 21:22 UTC] No.44525768[source]▶
Pretty much all invention is novel combination of known techniques. Anything that introduces a fundamental new technique is usually in the realm of groundbreaking papers and Nobel prizes.