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Comment by androng

1 year ago

If AI coding assistants provide little value then why is Cursor IDE a 300m company and why does this study say it makes people more 37% more productive?

https://exec.mit.edu/s/blog-post/the-productivity-effects-of...

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hooloovoo_zoo  1 year ago

That study shows nothing of the sort. It essentially showed ChatGPT is better at pumping out boilerplate than humans. Here are the tasks: https://www.science.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.112...

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