Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early

When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issuesβ€”a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking. Basically, using AI tools slows you down as you spend more time rewriting prompts to fix your code.

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