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> AI makes you feel 20% more productive but in reality makes you 19% slower. How many more billions are we going to waste on this?

True in the long run. Like a car with a high acceleration but low top speed.

AI makes you start fast, but regret later because you don't have the top speed.

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People repeating articles or papers. I know myself. I know from my own experiences what the good and bad of practice A or database B is. I don't need to read a conclusion by some Muppet.

Chill. Interesting times. Learn stuff, like always. Iterate. Be mindful and intentional and don't just chase mirrors but be practical.

The rest is fluff. You know yourself.

The takeaway from the paper is you don’t know yourself. It’s one paper, and a small sample size, but attempting to refute its conclusion by stating it’s false doesn’t really get us anywhere.

Lol. Maybe you need enough experience to understand if you think "it's written in a paper" is proof of anything, specially over the experience of people who do actual work and have been profilic over long periods.

This is shown in figure 5 of the paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09089

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