> devs had hardly any experience with using AI tools.
I love it, here come the "you are using it wrong" arguments!
I thought these tools are so great, so awesome, that even without much experience they will help you? Or are they not so great and you actually gotta spend a considerable amount of time of learning them to see some return? Which one is it:
- are LLMs groundbreaking and democratizing development making it so much easier (which doesn't correspond to the results of the study)
- or do they need months of practice to give a modest return (or loss) of productivity back?
"You are using it wrong" is the cheapest cop-out when somebody questions the productivity benefits of LLMs. I'd like the LLM fanbase community to come up with better arguments (or ask their little assistant for assistance).