"We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery."

D'oh.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

@otmar aka short bus genius

@otmar So I'm going to be the bad guy and say I'm glad this research was done. More importantly, I'm glad Anthropic released it publicly for us to read and review. They didn't have to.

More importantly, I am interested in seeing how it changes *their* behavior around product development.