Be careful with how you consider this article, it doesn’t have as much confirmation bias as the title would lead you to believe.
There are a few nuggets in this article that I think should be considered:
The open source projects that were tested have an average age of 10 years, the article states that AI code assistance is better for new projects and less efficient when used with existing projects.
The projects used have strict style guidelines.
The developers were very well versed on their projects, meaning they were extremely efficient and code changes.
the article itself claims that AI is probably better utilized by newer developers. Of course experienced devs who have years tied into their projects are going to be very well equipped to execute on their projects.
Be careful with how you consider this article, it doesn’t have as much confirmation bias as the title would lead you to believe.
There are a few nuggets in this article that I think should be considered: