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> Early-2025 AI slows down experienced open-source developers.

Even that's too general, because it'll depend on what the task is. It's not as if open source developers in general never work on tasks where AI could save time.

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We call this over-generalization out specifically in the "We do not provide evidence that:" table in the blog post and paper - I agree there are tasks these developers are likely sped up on with early-2025 tools.

I think this will be the key. Finding appropriate tasks. Even on code bases I know, I can find tedious things for the AI to do. Sometimes I can find tedious things for it to do that I would never have dreamt of doing in the past. Now, I think “will it do it?”.

Once I got a hang of identifying problems, or being more targeted, I was spending less time messing about and got things done quicker.

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