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Research Insights Made Simple · episode 17

Early-2025 AI and Experienced Developer Productivity

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

September 7, 202546:34

Episode guests

Solo review

This episode does not have a separate invited guest.

What we discussed

A review of a study on the impact of early-2025 AI tools on experienced open-source developer productivity.

The discussion covers experiment design, surprising results, habits, context, review and how experienced engineers work with AI tools.

The episode is valuable because it does not assume that AI always speeds work up.

AI in SDLCDeveloper productivityResearch methodology