After completing the tasks, developers who had been slowed down by AI tools still believed AI had sped them up by about 20%.
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even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%
This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.
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