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Comment by AugustoCAS

Dora released a report last year: https://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report/

The gains are ~17% increase in individual effectiveness, but a ~9% of extra instability.

In my experience using AI assisted coding for a bit longer than 2 years, the benefit is close to what Dora reported (maybe a bit higher around 25%). Nothing close to an average of 2x, 5x, 10x. There's a 10x in some very specific tasks, but also a negative factor in others as seemingly trivial, but high impact bugs get to production that would have normally be caught very early in development on in code reviews.

Obviously depends what one does. Using AI to build a UI to share cat pictures has a different risk appetite than building a payments backend.

parent AugustoCAS 7 months ago

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