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AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why
Metr recently published a paper about the impact AI tools have on open-source developer productivity[^1]. They show that when open source developers working in codebases that they are deeply familiar with use AI tools to complete a task, then they take longer to complete that task compared to other tasks where they…
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| Jul 14, 2025 | AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why by jwhiles | 363 | 211 |
