Claims / C-G6Z6F353KG

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In METR's randomised trial of 16 experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories with early-2025 tools, developers took 19 per cent longer when they used AI and still believed afterwards that AI had sped them up by 20 per cent; METR calls the result a snapshot of early-2025 capabilities in one setting and now marks it out of date.

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    developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

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