Quentin Anthony on X: "I was one of the 16 devs in this study. I wanted to speak on my opinions about the causes and mitigation strategies for dev slowdown. I'll say as a "why listen to you?" hook that I experienced a -38% AI-speedup on my assigned issues. I think transparency helps the community. https://t.co/Qc7nSFj6kR" / X
To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore 2 Notifications Messages Grok Lists Bookmarks Communities Premium Verified Orgs Profile More Post Lydia @LydNot Post See new posts Conversation Quentin Anthony @QuentinAnthon15 I was one of the 16 devs in this study. I wanted to speak on my opinions about the causes and mitigation strategies for dev slowdown. I'll say as a "why listen to you?" hook that I experienced a -38% AI-speedup on my assigned issues. I think transparency helps the community. Quote METR @METR_Evals · Jul 10 We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't. 1:21 AM · Jul 12, 2025 · 1.8M Views 102 601 4K 3.1K Post your reply Reply Quentin Anthony @QuentinAnthon15 · Jul 12 Firstly, I think AI s
Quentin Anthony @QuentinAnthon15 I was one of the 16 devs in this study. I wanted to speak on my opinions about the causes and mitigation strategies for dev slowdown. I'll say as a "why listen to you?" hook that I experienced a -38% AI-speedup on my assigned issues. I think transparency helps the community. METR @METR_Evals Jul 10, 2025 We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than
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