Comment by exiguus

> My intuition here is that this study mainly demonstrated that the learning curve on AI-assisted development is high enough that asking developers to bake it into their existing workflows reduces their performance while they climb that learning curve.

Could be the case for some, but I also think, that there is not much to climb on the learning curve for AI agents.

In my opinion, its more interesting, that the study also states, that AI capabilities may be comparatively lower on existing code:

> Our results also suggest that AI capabilities may be comparatively lower in settings with very high quality standards, or with many implicit requirements (e.g. relating to documentation, testing coverage, or linting/formatting) that take humans substantial time to learn.

This is consistent with my personal/pear experience. On existing code: You have to do try and error with AI until you get a 'good' result. Or highly modify AI generated code by yourself (which is often slower then writing it yourself from the beginning).