Comment by northfield27

Edit: Changed title

Previous title: "Anthropic: AI Coding shows no productivity gains; impairs skill development"

The previous title oversimplified the claim to "all" developers. I found the previous title meaningful while submitting this post because most of the false AI claims of "software engineer is finished" has mostly affected junior `inexperienced` engineers. But I think `junior inexperienced` was implicit which many people didn't pick.

The paper makes a more nuanced claim that AI Coding speeds up work for inexperienced developers, leading to some productivity gains at the cost of actual skill development.