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		JackC 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-sou... (I read the post but not paper.) Did you measure subjective fatigue as one way to explain the misperception that AI was faster? As a developer-turned-manager I like AI because it's easier when my brain is tired.

narush 5 months ago [–]

We attempted to! We explore this more in the section Trading speed for ease (C.2.5) in the paper (https://metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experienced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf).

TLDR: mixed evidence that developers make it less effortful, from quantitative and qualitative reports. Unclear effect.

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