Surprise Research Finding: Developers Using AI Take 19% Longer on Tasks

Artificial intelligence tools can slow down experienced open-source developers rather than accelerate their work, according to findings released by the nonprofit AI research group METR. Developers and experts widely anticipated that using advanced tools would significantly improve productivity and shorten the time required to complete tasks in familiar codebases by approximately 24%; however, a randomized study by METR found that the opposite was true.“Surprisingly, we find that when