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wtetzneryesterday at 2:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

I think it's still an open question if it's actually a net savings of time.


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chasd00yesterday at 2:41 PM

One thing I’ve noticed is that effort may be saved but not as much time. The agent can certainly type faster than me but I have to sit there and watch it work and then check its work when done. There’s certainly some time savings but not what you think.

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strange_quarkyesterday at 3:58 PM

The absence of evidence is evidence in its own way. I don’t understand how there haven’t been more studies on this yet. The one from last year that showed AI made people think they were faster but were actually slower gets cited a lot, and I know that was a small study with older tools, but it’s amazing that that hasn’t been repeated. Or maybe it has and we don’t know because the results got buried.