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Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

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51 points ForHackernews | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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frankc ◴[07 Sep 25 20:42 UTC] No.45161945[source]▶
I don't know exactly where AI is going to go, but the fact that I keep seeing this one study of programmer productivity, with like 16 people with limited experience with cursor,uncritically quoted over and over assures me that the anti-AI fervor is at least as big of a bubble as the AI bubble itself.
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1. kjkjadksj ◴[07 Sep 25 20:58 UTC] No.45162080[source]▶
To be fair when you look at most studies that are hemm and hawwed over in the press, they tend to look like that. Well controlled, high n, replicated in independent cohorts, the readership of mass market media doesn’t understand any of this nuance. The bar is merely whatever seems to validate an existing bias whatever the topic since the incentives are built around engagement and not scientific truth.