## 📝 Overview >[!summary] >While experienced open-source developers think AI improve their productivity by > 20% in practice according to this study it makes them 20% slower. >[!question] >Does AI really speed up code related tasks for experienced developers? >[!idea] > Measure real world AI impact on code productivity by comparing what developper think AI save them versus what actually happen for a set of experienced open-source developpers. ## 🔮 Insights ![[Pasted image 20250712102604.png]] >[!insight] > Overall developers thinks AI save them 20% time whereas observed results tend to suggest it makes them 20% slowers >[!limitation] > The study is only for a group of developers, we need more studies to see if it is reproductible. ## 🧭 Topic Compass ### Where Does X come from? ### What is similar to X? ### What compete with X? Models improvements: As LLM code capabilities improve code speedup will improve too. ### Where can X lead To? ## 📖 References ### Paper https://metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experienced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf ![[Early_2025_AI_Experienced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf]]