A research study on using AI coding assistants has shown that while developers believed they got a 20% productivity gain from using the tools, measurement showed a 19% decrease in productivity.

METR recruited 16 open-source devs to complete 246 real coding tasks, randomly assigning each to “AI Allowed” or “AI Disallowed.”

Devs estimated time saved with AI before & after each task, while screen recording to measured real-world AI productivity gains.

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-slowdown

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An example of the weakness of ChatGPT as an answer engine is that I tested it by asking two opposite questions.
1. Why has bitcoin outperformed ethereum this year?
2. Why has ethereum outperformed bitcoin this year?

For (2) instead of saying it hasn’t, it gave me a plausible set of answers. Plausible yet wrong. Trust but verify.

Apple resumes advertising on X after pausing in 2023 following controversial antisemitic comments by Elon Musk.

I guess since Musk hasn’t done anything controversial or antisemitic recently, this totally makes sense. 😇

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/