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We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design (opens in new tab)

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METR previously published a paper which found the use of AI tools caused a 20% slowdown in completing tasks among experienced open-source developers, using data from February to June 2025.

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Your AI Coding Speedup Is a Loan, Not a Gift — and the Interest Is Coming Due

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Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them

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