Comment by didibus

5 days ago

There's a dissonance I feel. The study for example looked at experienced developer working on existing open source projects.

Lots of people we're now conversing with could be junior or mid-level, might have tried it for little prototypes/experiments, or for more trivial software like commissioned websites, and so on. They could all be benefiting from agentic coding workflows in ways that we don't. With the caveat that the study you talked about also showed even the experience devs felt more productive, so clearly the use of AI biases your perception of delivery speed.

The large array of context I suspect is responsible for some of that dissonance on online discourse.